The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 160

But hearing the birds chirping to their mates among the trees made her think with longing of her husband, and she wept bitterly, and taking her child in her arms, and her bundle of chicken bones on her shoulder, she entered the wood.

Who acts: hearing, mother, bundle, husband · What happens: hear, chirp, make, think, weep, take · To what, where: birds, mates, mother, child, arms, wood

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearing, mother, bundle, husband), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 made	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 birds	det
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hearing	obj
5	chirping	chirp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hearing	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mates	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mates	nmod:poss
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chirping	obl
9	among	among	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chirping	obl
12	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 made	obj
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 made	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 longing	case
16	longing	longing	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 think	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 husband	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 husband	nmod:poss
19	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 longing	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wept	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 wept	cc
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 wept	nsubj
23	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
24	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	23 wept	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 taking	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 taking	cc
27	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 made	parataxis
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 child	nmod:poss
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 taking	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 arms	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 arms	nmod:poss
32	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 taking	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 entered	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 entered	cc
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 bundle	nmod:poss
36	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 entered	nsubj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 bones	case
38	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bones	compound
39	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 bundle	nmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 shoulder	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 shoulder	nmod:poss
42	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 bones	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 entered	punct
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 entered	nsubj
45	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 made	conj
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 wood	det
47	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 entered	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		the birds				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	chirp	gerund			birds's mates		among the trees	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mate=Recipient
3	make	past	hearing	mother				tree rules
4	think speech: other	infinitive	mother not said here				with longing of mother's husband	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	weep	past	mother				bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	gerund		mother's child		mother's arms		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Value in arm=Location
7	enter	past	mother's bundle of chicken bones on mother's shoulder	the wood				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination
8	long		mother's husband					nom longing «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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