The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 86

Choose only a small white bird that is hidden in a corner, which the others try incessantly to kill, not knowing that it cannot die.

Who acts: you, others, corner · What happens: choose, hide, try, kill, not know, not die · To what, where: small white bird, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

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, others, corner), 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	Choose	choose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	6 bird	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Choose	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 hidden	nsubj:pass
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hidden	aux:pass
9	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bird	acl:relcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hidden	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 try	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 try	obj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 others	det
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 try	nsubj
17	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 corner	conj
18	incessantly	incessantly	ADV	_	17 try	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 kill	mark
20	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 try	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 knowing	punct
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 knowing	advmod
23	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 kill	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 die	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 die	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 die	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 die	advmod
28	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knowing	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Choose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	choose	imperative	you not said here	a small white bird			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	hide	present · passive		a small white bird	a corner		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in corner=Location
3	try	present	the others	a corner		incessantly property	tree rules
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the others not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	not know	gerund	the others not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	not die	can	corner				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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