The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 43

When birds were men, and men were birds, Pivi and Kabo lived in an island far away, called New Claledonia.

Who acts: birds, men · What happens: be, live, call · To what, where: men, birds, island · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, men), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 lived	advmod
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 men	cop
4	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lived	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 birds	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 birds	cc
7	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 birds	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 birds	cop
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 men	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Pivi	punct
11	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 lived	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Kabo	cc
13	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Pivi	conj
14	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 island	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 island	det
17	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lived	obl
18	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 away	advmod
19	away	away	ADV	_	17 island	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 called	punct
21	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 island	acl
22	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 Claledonia	amod
23	Claledonia	Claledonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 called	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	birds	men and birds		tree rules
2	is a	past	men	birds		tree rules
3	live	past	men and birds		a island	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in island=Location
4	call	participle		a island not said here		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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