The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 56

‘I will leave them there till I return,’ he murmured to himself, but a hoodie crow, which was sitting on a branch above, heard him.

Who acts: I, breath, hoodie crow · What happens: leave, return, murmur, sit, hear · To what, where: axe, breath, branch

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 (I, breath, hoodie crow), 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	_	4 leave	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 leave	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	aux
4	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 leave	obj
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 leave	advmod
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 return	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 return	nsubj
9	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 return	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 return	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 murmured	nsubj
13	murmured	murmur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 return	ccomp
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 murmured	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 heard	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crow	det
19	hoodie	hoodie	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 crow	amod
20	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 heard	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sitting	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sitting	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sitting	aux
24	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 crow	acl
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 branch	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 branch	det
27	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sitting	obl
28	above	above	ADV	_	27 branch	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 crow	punct
30	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 leave	parataxis
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 heard	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	leave	future	I	axe		there	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	return	present	I				tree rules
3	murmur speech: other	past	breath		breath		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	sit	past · progressive	a hoodie crow			a branch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
5	hear	past	a hoodie crow	breath			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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