The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 85
He went up to a tree in order to take shelter under it, and on that tree he saw some young birds which were being thoroughly drenched.
Who acts: rain · What happens: go up, take, see, drench · To what, where: shelter, young birds, tree
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rain), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 went | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 order | case |
| 8 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 take | mark |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | advcl |
| 11 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 tree | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 tree | det |
| 18 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 birds | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 birds | amod |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 drenched | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 drenched | aux |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 drenched | aux:pass |
| 27 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 28 drenched | advmod |
| 28 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 birds | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | past | rain | to a tree; in order | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in order=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | rain not said here | shelter | shelter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | rain | some young birds | that tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | drench | past · progressive · passive | some young birds | thoroughly property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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