The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 89

“He has eaten our children and sleeps after it; he must die,” said the father-bird, and flew back to the hills and clawed up a huge stone which he meant to let fall on the prince’s head.

Who acts: prince, father bird, huge stone · What happens: eat, sleep, die, say, fly back, claw up · To what, where: children, huge stone, fall, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, father bird, huge stone), 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	_	4 eaten	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
5	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 children	nmod:poss
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sleeps	cc
8	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sleeps	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 die	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 eaten	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bird	det
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bird	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 father	punct
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flew	cc
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	parataxis
25	back	back	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 hills	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hills	det
28	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 flew	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 clawed	cc
30	clawed	claw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 flew	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 clawed	compound:prt
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stone	det
33	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stone	amod
34	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 clawed	obl
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 meant	nsubj
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 meant	nsubj
37	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 stone	acl:relcl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 let	mark
39	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 meant	xcomp
40	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 let	obj
41	on	on	ADP	_	45 head	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 prince	det
43	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 head	nmod:poss
44	’s	's	PART	_	43 prince	case
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 let	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	present · perfect	prince	our children				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
2	sleep in a quote	present	prince not said here			after murderer		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die in a quote	must	prince					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	say speech: assert	past	the father bird					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	fly back	past					to the hills result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hill=Result
6	claw up	participle		a huge stone				vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
7	mean	past	a huge stone					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	a huge stone not said here	fall	the prince's head			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent fall=Theme on head=Asset

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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