The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 107

They flew round and round the head of the girl, when three grains of barley fell on the floor, and the silver pigeon dived down, and swallowed them.

Who acts: pigeons, three grains, silver pigeon · What happens: fly, round, fall, dive down, swallow · To what, where: head, floor, pigeons

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigeons, three grains, silver pigeon), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 round	cc
5	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flew	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 head	det
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 round	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 girl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 girl	det
10	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 fell	advmod
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 grains	nummod
14	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fell	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 barley	case
16	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grains	nmod
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 floor	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 floor	det
20	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fell	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 dived	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 dived	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pigeon	det
24	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pigeon	compound
25	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dived	nsubj
26	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
27	down	down	ADP	_	26 dived	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 swallowed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 swallowed	cc
30	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 swallowed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	pigeons = pigeon			round property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	round	infinitive	pigeons = pigeon not said here	the head of the girl			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
3	fall	past	three grains of barley		the floor		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
4	dive down	past	the silver pigeon				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	swallow	past	pigeons = pigeon not said here	pigeons = pigeon			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

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