The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 7

From that day, whenever they wanted food they went to the hut, and though the robin could not speak, he would hop on their shoulders and let them feed him with the food they knew he liked best.

Who acts: corner, robin · What happens: want, go, not speak, hop, let, feed · To what, where: food, hut, shoulders, corner, robin, best · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (corner, robin), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 wanted	advmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	advcl
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	obj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 hut	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hut	det
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hop	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hop	cc
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	21 speak	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 robin	det
18	robin	robin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 speak	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 speak	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 speak	advmod
21	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hop	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 speak	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hop	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hop	aux
25	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 went	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 shoulders	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 shoulders	nmod:poss
28	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hop	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 let	cc
30	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hop	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 let	obj
32	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 let	xcomp
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 feed	iobj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 food	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 food	det
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 feed	obl
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knew	nsubj
38	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 food	acl:relcl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 liked	nsubj
40	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 knew	ccomp
41	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 liked	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	corner	food				whenever property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
2	go	past	corner			the hut	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location
3	not speak speech: other	could	the robin						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hop	would	robin			corner's shoulders			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Trajectory
5	let	infinitive	robin not said here	corner					tree rules
6	feed	infinitive	corner not said here		robin			with the food	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	know	past	corner	the food not said here					tree rules
8	like	past	robin	best					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=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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