The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 41

Ras!’ but no sparrows flew out, for Little Lasse had no wings, only two small legs.

Who acts: Ras, Little · What happens: fly out, have · To what, where: wings

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ras, Little), 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	Ras	Ras	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ras	punct
3	’	'	PUNCT	_	1 Ras	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 flew	cc
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 sparrows	det
6	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 flew	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
11	Little	Little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 had	nsubj
12	Lasse	Lasse	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Little	flat
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 flew	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 wings	det
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 legs	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 two	advmod
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 legs	nummod
19	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 legs	amod
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly out	past	Ras						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	Little	no wings				two small legs obl	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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