The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 84
Then a pink and grey parrot hopped up to the giant, who by this time was stretching himself and giving yawns which shook the castle.
Who acts: pink parrot, yawns · What happens: hop up, stretch, give, shake · To what, where: pink parrot, Parrot, yawns, castle
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pink parrot, yawns), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 parrot | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 parrot | det |
| 3 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parrot | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grey | cc |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pink | conj |
| 6 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | hopped | hop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 parrot | acl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 hopped | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hopped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stretching | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stretching | nsubj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 time | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretching | obl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stretching | aux |
| 18 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 parrot | acl |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 stretching | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 giving | cc |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 stretching | conj |
| 22 | yawns | yawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 giving | obj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 shook | nsubj |
| 24 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 yawns | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 castle | det |
| 26 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shook | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 parrot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop up | participle | a pink parrot not said here | to the giant | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to giant=Destination | ||||
| 2 | stretch | past · progressive | a pink parrot | Parrot | time | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | gerund | a pink parrot not said here | yawns | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yawn=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shake | past | yawns | the castle | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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