The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 85

As a rule, the young birds raised a clamour of welcome when their parents came near, but on this day they were so full of dragon-meat that they had no choice, they had to go to sleep.

Who acts: young birds, parents · What happens: raise, come, be, have, go · To what, where: clamour, dragon meat, sleep

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 (young birds, 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 rule	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rule	det
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rule	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rule	nmod
8	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 birds	acl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clamour	det
10	clamour	clamour	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raised	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 welcome	case
12	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 clamour	nmod
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 parents	nmod:poss
15	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 welcome	advcl
17	near	near	ADV	_	16 came	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 full	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 full	cc
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 full	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 full	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 full	advmod
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 welcome	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 meat	case
28	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 meat	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 dragon	punct
30	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 full	obl
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 had	obj
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 meat	acl:relcl
34	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	35 choice	det
35	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 full	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 go	mark
40	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 had	xcomp
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 sleep	case
42	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 go	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rule	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise	participle	the young birds not said here	a clamour of welcome				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clamour=Theme
2	come	past	birds's parents				near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	parents = parent			day	of dragon meat; full property	tree rules
4	have	past	parents = parent	dragon meat				tree rules
5	have	past	parents = parent					tree rules
6	go	to-infinitive	parents = parent not said here		sleep			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location

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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