The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 5
Nought did he see but the birds that made their nests in the trees, not so much as a goat or a rabbit.
Who acts: Nought, birds · What happens: see, make · To what, where: nests, trees
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 (Nought, birds), 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 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 4 see | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 birds | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birds | det |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 see | conj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 birds | acl:relcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nests | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trees | det |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 much | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 much | advmod |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 see | conj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 goat | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 goat | det |
| 21 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 much | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 rabbit | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rabbit | det |
| 24 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 goat | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Nought | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | make | past | the birds | birds's nests | the trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
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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