The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 91

They flew nearer, and presently the young birds woke and cried, “Mother, what have you brought for us?” and they told the whole story of the fight, and of how they were alive only by the favour of the young man under the tree, and of his cutting up the dragon and of their eating it.

Who acts: birds, young birds, person · What happens: fly, wake, cry, bring, tell, be · To what, where: Mother, whole story, dragon, young man · 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 (birds, young birds, person), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 flew	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 woke	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 woke	cc
6	presently	presently	ADV	_	10 woke	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 birds	amod
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 woke	nsubj
10	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 cried	cc
12	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woke	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Mother	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Mother	punct
15	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cried	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 brought	nsubj:pass
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 brought	aux
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 brought	nsubj
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 Mother	acl:relcl
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 us	case
22	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 brought	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Mother	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 told	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 told	nsubj
27	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 story	det
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 story	amod
30	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 told	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 fight	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 fight	det
33	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 story	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 alive	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 alive	cc
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	40 alive	mark
37	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	40 alive	advmod
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 alive	nsubj
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 alive	cop
40	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 told	conj
41	only	only	ADV	_	44 favour	advmod
42	by	by	ADP	_	44 favour	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 favour	det
44	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 alive	obl
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 man	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 man	det
47	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 man	amod
48	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 favour	nmod
49	under	under	ADP	_	51 tree	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 tree	det
51	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 man	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 cutting	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 cutting	cc
54	of	of	SCONJ	_	56 cutting	mark
55	his	his	PRON	Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 cutting	nsubj
56	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 flew	conj
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 cutting	compound:prt
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 dragon	det
59	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 cutting	obj
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 eating	cc
61	of	of	SCONJ	_	63 eating	mark
62	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 eating	nsubj
63	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 cutting	conj
64	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 eating	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly	past	birds = bird		near property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wake	past	the young birds		presently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past	the young birds not said here	Mother		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bring in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Mother	for us	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	birds = bird	the whole story of the fight		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient
6	is	past	birds = bird		by the favour of the young man under the tree; alive property	tree rules
7	cut up	gerund	person	the dragon		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset dragon=Product
8	eat	gerund	birds = bird	dragon		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9	favour			the young man under the tree		nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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