The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 85
Afterwards, go into the aviary opposite the great door, but be careful not to touch any of the bright-plumaged birds contained in it, which will cry to you, each one, that he is the Bird of Truth.
Who acts: you, owl · What happens: go, be, not touch, plumage, contain, cry · To what, where: aviary opposite, any, plumaged birds, opposite, you, Bird
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, owl), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Afterwards | punct |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 opposite | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 opposite | det |
| 6 | aviary | aviary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 opposite | amod |
| 7 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 door | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 door | amod |
| 10 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opposite | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 careful | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 careful | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 careful | cop |
| 14 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 go | parataxis |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 touch | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 touch | mark |
| 17 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 careful | advcl |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 touch | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 birds | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 birds | det |
| 21 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plumaged | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 bright | punct |
| 23 | plumaged | plumage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 birds | amod |
| 24 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 any | nmod |
| 25 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 birds | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 contained | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cry | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 cry | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 cry | aux |
| 31 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 touch | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 you | case |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 cry | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 one | punct |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 one | det |
| 36 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cry | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Bird | punct |
| 38 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 Bird | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 Bird | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 Bird | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Bird | det |
| 42 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cry | parataxis |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Truth | case |
| 44 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Bird | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the aviary opposite the great door | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into opposite=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not touch | to-infinitive | any | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme any=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | plumage | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | contain | participle | the plumaged birds not said here | opposite | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in it=Location | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | future | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is a | present | owl | the Bird | of Truth | 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 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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