The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 112
Then Aina noticed that a sparrow sitting on the fence was just ready to pounce on the poor little worm, so she took up the leaf, carried it out into the wood and hid it under a raspberry bush where the greedy sparrow could not find it.
Who acts: Aina, sparrow, greedy sparrow · What happens: notice, sit, be, pounce, take up, carry out · To what, where: fence, leaf, wood, raspberry bush
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aina, sparrow, greedy sparrow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 noticed | advmod |
| 2 | Aina | Aina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 noticed | nsubj |
| 3 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 ready | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sparrow | det |
| 6 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sparrow | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 fence | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fence | det |
| 10 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sitting | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ready | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 ready | advmod |
| 13 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 noticed | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pounce | mark |
| 15 | pounce | pounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ready | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 worm | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 worm | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 worm | amod |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 worm | amod |
| 20 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pounce | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 took | advmod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | nsubj |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 took | compound:prt |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 leaf | det |
| 27 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carried | punct |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carried | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 carried | compound:prt |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 wood | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 wood | det |
| 34 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 hid | cc |
| 36 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 noticed | conj |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 hid | obj |
| 38 | under | under | ADP | _ | 41 bush | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 bush | det |
| 40 | raspberry | raspberry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 bush | compound |
| 41 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hid | obl |
| 42 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 48 find | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sparrow | det |
| 44 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 sparrow | amod |
| 45 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 find | nsubj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 find | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 find | advmod |
| 48 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 bush | acl:relcl |
| 49 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 find | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | Aina | then | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | a sparrow not said here | the fence | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fence=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a sparrow | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pounce | to-infinitive | a sparrow not said here | on the poor little worm | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on worm=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | take up | past | Aina | the leaf | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 6 | carry out | past | Aina not said here | leaf | the wood | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | hide | past | Aina not said here | leaf | a raspberry bush | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient under bush=Location | |||
| 8 | not find | could | the greedy sparrow | leaf | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/24/112/