The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 36
‘My apples are completely eaten up by blackbirds and thrushes.
Who acts: blackbirds · What happens: eat up · To what, where: apples
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blackbirds), 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 | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 apples | nmod:poss |
| 3 | apples | apple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 6 eaten | advmod |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 eaten | compound:prt |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 blackbirds | case |
| 9 | blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eaten | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thrushes | cc |
| 11 | thrushes | thrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 blackbirds | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat up | present · passive | blackbirds and thrushes | My apples | completely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
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/pg3454/27/36/