The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 92

With steadfast face the boy walked by them all, to the corner, where, hemmed in by a hand of fierce crows, was the small white bird he sought.

Who acts: boy · What happens: walk, hem in, be, seek · To what, where: small white 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 (boy), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 face	case
2	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 face	amod
3	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	nsubj
6	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 walked	obl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 them	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 corner	punct
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 corner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corner	det
13	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hemmed	punct
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 hemmed	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hemmed	punct
17	hemmed	hem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 corner	acl:relcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	17 hemmed	compound:prt
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hand	det
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 hemmed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 crows	case
23	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 crows	amod
24	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hand	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 bird	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bird	cop
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bird	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 bird	amod
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walked	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 sought	nsubj
32	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bird	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	walk	past	the boy		with steadfast face; by faces = face; to the corner result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to corner=Result
2	hem in	participle			by a hand of fierce crows	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		the small white bird		tree rules
4	seek	past	boy	the small white bird not said here		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme

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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