The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 80
The nest of the Simurgh was in the wonderful tree above him, and in it were young birds; the parents were away searching for food.
Who acts: nest, parents · What happens: be, search · To what, where: wonderful tree
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nest, parents), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 nest | det |
| 2 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Simurgh | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Simurgh | det |
| 5 | Simurgh | Simurgh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nest | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tree | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tree | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 birds | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 birds | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 birds | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 birds | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 birds | cop |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 birds | amod |
| 19 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tree | conj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 searching | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 parents | det |
| 22 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 searching | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 searching | aux |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 searching | advmod |
| 25 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tree | conj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 food | case |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 searching | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the nest of the Simurgh | the wonderful tree and young birds | above prince | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | nest | in young birds | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | search | past · progressive | the parents | for food; away property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=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 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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