The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 84
But this time there was no cowering, timid magpie to do his bidding, but a bird with his head erect and a determined voice.
Who acts: magpie · What happens: do, bid · To what, where: bidding
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 erect | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 erect | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cowering | det |
| 7 | cowering | cowering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 magpie | punct |
| 9 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magpie | amod |
| 10 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cowering | appos |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 magpie | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 erect | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 erect | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 erect | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bird | nmod |
| 22 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 voice | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voice | det |
| 25 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voice | amod |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 erect | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 erect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | to-infinitive | magpie's bidding | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | bid | magpie | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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