The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 87

But the bird was too quick for him, and, flying behind his back, begged the giant to have patience, as her death would be of no use to him.

Who acts: bird, death · What happens: be, fly, beg, have, die · To what, where: back, patience, Parrot · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bird, death), 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	_	6 quick	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quick	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 quick	advmod
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quick	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 begged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 begged	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flying	punct
12	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 begged	ccomp
13	behind	behind	ADP	_	15 back	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 back	nmod:poss
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flying	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 flying	punct
17	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 giant	det
19	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 begged	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 have	mark
21	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 giant	xcomp
22	patience	patience	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 have	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 use	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 use	mark
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 death	nmod:poss
26	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 use	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 use	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 use	cop
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 use	case
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 use	det
31	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 begged	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 use	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 quick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bird				for Parrot; quick property	tree rules
2	fly	gerund				Parrot's back		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind back=Location
3	beg speech: request	past	the bird not said here				giant property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive	the bird not said here	patience				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patience=Patient
5	is	would	bird's death		Parrot		of no use	tree rules
6	die		bird					nom death «event intransitive»: 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 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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