The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 75

Indeed he was so different from the gay, jaunty magpie whom every creature in the forest knew, that a crow who was flying past, stopped to inquire what was the matter.

Who acts: magpie, creature, crow · What happens: be, know, fly, stop, inquire · To what, where: gay, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

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, creature, crow), 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	Indeed	indeed	ADV	_	5 different	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 different	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 different	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 different	advmod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 gay	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 gay	det
8	gay	gay	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 different	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 magpie	punct
10	jaunty	jaunty	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 magpie	compound
11	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gay	conj
12	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 knew	obj
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 creature	det
14	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 knew	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 creature	nmod
18	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gay	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stopped	punct
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 stopped	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crow	det
22	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stopped	nsubj
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 flying	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flying	aux
25	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 crow	acl:relcl
26	past	past	ADV	_	25 flying	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crow	punct
28	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 different	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 inquire	mark
30	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 stopped	xcomp
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 matter	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 matter	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 matter	det
34	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 inquire	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 different	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	magpie		the gay and jaunty magpie	different, indeed property	tree rules
2	know	past	every creature in the forest	the gay and jaunty magpie			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
3	fly	past · progressive	a crow			past property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stop	past	a crow				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	a crow not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past		the matter			tree rules

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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