The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 90

He heard one swallow say to another: “Come, let us fly to Finland; we can build better nests there.”

Who acts: prince, one swallow, us, we · What happens: hear, say, come, let, fly, build · To what, where: another, us, Finland, better nests · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, one swallow, us, we), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 swallow	nummod
4	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 another	case
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 say	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Come	punct
10	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 let	punct
12	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 Come	conj
13	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 let	obj
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 let	xcomp
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 Finland	case
16	Finland	Finland	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 fly	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 build	punct
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 build	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 build	aux
20	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	ccomp
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 nests	amod
22	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 build	obj
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 build	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 build	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 build	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	prince				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	present	one swallow		another		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to another=Recipient
3	come in a quote	infinitive					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive		us			tree rules
5	fly in a quote	infinitive	us not said here		Finland		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to finland=Result
6	build in a quote	can	we	better nests		there	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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/pg503/26/90/