The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 12
“Flutter from tree to tree, chattering bird,” said she, “till you come to Ratibor, my love.
Who acts: you, Flutter · What happens: chatter, say, come, love · To what, where: bird, Ratibor · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Flutter), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flutter | punct |
| 2 | Flutter | flutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 tree | case |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Flutter | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tree | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 chattering | punct |
| 8 | chattering | chatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Flutter | conj |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chattering | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flutter | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Flutter | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 love | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 love | punct |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 come | mark |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 love | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Ratibor | case |
| 20 | Ratibor | Ratibor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 come | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 love | nmod:poss |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter in a quote | gerund | bird | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | you | Ratibor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ratibor=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | Flutter | 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 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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