The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 71
This garden was a favourite place for birds of all kinds, each hoping to secure an orange for dinner, and in order to frighten the birds away and keep a little fruit for himself, the master had fastened a waxen figure on one of the boughs.
Who acts: garden, each · What happens: be, hope, secure, frighten away, keep, fasten · To what, where: favourite place, orange, birds, little fruit, master
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garden, each), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 garden | det |
| 2 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 5 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 birds | case |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 place | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kinds | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 kinds | det |
| 11 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 birds | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoping | punct |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 hoping | nsubj |
| 14 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 place | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 secure | mark |
| 16 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hoping | xcomp |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 orange | det |
| 18 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 secure | obj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 dinner | case |
| 20 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 secure | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 frighten | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 frighten | cc |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 frighten | mark |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 in | fixed |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 frighten | mark |
| 26 | frighten | frighten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 birds | det |
| 28 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 frighten | obj |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 26 frighten | advmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 keep | cc |
| 31 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 frighten | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fruit | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fruit | amod |
| 34 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keep | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 himself | case |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 keep | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fastened | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 master | det |
| 39 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fastened | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 fastened | aux |
| 41 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 keep | advcl |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 figure | det |
| 43 | waxen | waxen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 figure | amod |
| 44 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fastened | obj |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 one | case |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 fastened | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 boughs | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 boughs | det |
| 49 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 one | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this garden | a favourite place | for birds of all kinds | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hope | gerund | each | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | secure not said to happen | to-infinitive | each not said here | a orange | for dinner | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition orange=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | frighten away | to-infinitive | the birds | away property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | a little fruit | for bird | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fasten | past · perfect · passive | the master | on one of the boughs | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient figure=Result |
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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