The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 74

He sat on the edge of his nest, his head drooping and his feathers all ruffled, looking the picture of misery.

Who acts: magpie, head, feathers · What happens: sit, droop, ruffle, look · To what, where: edge, picture

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magpie, head, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 edge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 edge	det
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 nest	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nest	nmod:poss
8	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 edge	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drooping	punct
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 head	nmod:poss
11	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drooping	nsubj
12	drooping	droop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ruffled	cc
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feathers	nmod:poss
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ruffled	nsubj
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 ruffled	advmod
17	ruffled	ruffle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 ruffled	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 picture	det
21	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 looking	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 misery	case
23	misery	misery	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 picture	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	magpie		the edge of magpie's nest		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
2	droop	gerund	magpie's head				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ruffle	past	magpie's feathers			all property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	look	gerund	magpie's feathers not said here	the picture of misery			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme picture=Attribute

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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