The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 40
He raised the lid, and out flew the three little birds.
Who acts: pity · What happens: raise, fly · To what, where: lid, three little birds
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 (pity), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lid | det |
| 4 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 flew | cc |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 flew | advmod |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 birds | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 birds | nummod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 birds | amod |
| 12 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flew | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | pity | the lid | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the three little birds | out property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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