The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 78

Only a big crow perched alone in the birch tree; and the gardener’s black cat sat under the birch tree, waiting to catch the crow.

Who acts: black cat · What happens: perch, sit, wait, catch · To what, where: big crow, birch tree, crow

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 (black cat), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	4 crow	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crow	det
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crow	amod
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crow	acl
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 perched	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 perched	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 cat	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 gardener	det
14	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cat	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 gardener	case
16	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cat	amod
17	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	nsubj
18	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crow	conj
19	under	under	ADP	_	22 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
21	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 waiting	punct
24	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sat	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 catch	mark
26	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 waiting	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 crow	det
28	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 catch	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perch	participle		a big crow not said here	the birch tree	alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location
2	sit	past	the gardener's black cat		the birch tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location
3	wait	gerund	the gardener's black cat not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	catch	to-infinitive	the gardener's black cat not said here	the crow			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=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 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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