The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 44

Pivi was a cheery little bird that chirps at sunset; Kabo was an ugly black fowl that croaks in the darkness.

Who acts: Pivi, cheery little bird, Kabo, ugly black fowl · What happens: be, chirp, croak · To what, where: cheery little bird, ugly black fowl, darkness

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 (Pivi, cheery little bird, Kabo, ugly black fowl), 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	Pivi	Pivi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
4	cheery	cheery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 chirps	nsubj
8	chirps	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 sunset	case
10	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chirps	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 fowl	punct
12	Kabo	Kabo	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 fowl	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 fowl	cop
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 fowl	det
15	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fowl	amod
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fowl	amod
17	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 croaks	nsubj
19	croaks	croak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fowl	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 darkness	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 darkness	det
22	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 croaks	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	past	Pivi	a cheery little bird and a ugly black fowl			tree rules
2	chirp	present	a cheery little bird and a ugly black fowl			sunset	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	Kabo	a ugly black fowl			tree rules
4	croak	present	a ugly black fowl		the darkness		vn animal_sounds-38 «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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