The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 27

‘Bear me to the kingdom of the king under the waves,’ he answered, and one little bird flew on to his head, and the others perched on each of his shoulders, and he shut his eyes, and in a moment there he was in the country under the sea.

Who acts: you, king, one little bird, others · What happens: bear, answer, fly, perch, shut, be · To what, where: me, waves, head, each, eyes, moment

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, one little bird, others), 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	_	2 Bear	punct
2	Bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Bear	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 kingdom	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 kingdom	det
6	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bear	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 king	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kingdom	nmod
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 waves	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 waves	det
12	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Bear	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Bear	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 flew	cc
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 bird	nummod
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 bird	amod
21	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flew	nsubj
22	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 answered	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	26 head	case
24	to	to	ADP	_	23 on	fixed
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 head	nmod:poss
26	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flew	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 perched	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 perched	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 others	det
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 perched	nsubj
31	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flew	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	31 perched	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 shoulders	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shoulders	nmod:poss
36	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 each	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 shut	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 shut	cc
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 shut	nsubj
40	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 perched	conj
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 eyes	nmod:poss
42	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 shut	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 moment	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 moment	cc
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 moment	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 moment	det
47	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Bear	conj
48	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 moment	advmod
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 country	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 country	cop
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 country	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 country	det
53	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 moment	acl:relcl
54	under	under	ADP	_	56 sea	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 sea	det
56	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 country	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	imperative	you not said here	me	the waves	to the kingdom of the king	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
2	answer speech: assert	past	king				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	one little bird		king's head		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on head=Location
4	perch	past	the others		each		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on each=Location
5	shut	past	king	king's eyes			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
6	is	past	king	a moment not said here	the country	under the sea	tree rules

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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