The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 89
Now this was the mother of those small birds which the Prince had covered up.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, cover up · To what, where: mother, small birds
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 (this), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 mother | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 mother | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mother | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 birds | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 birds | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birds | amod |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mother | nmod |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 covered | aux |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 birds | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 covered | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mother | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this | the mother | now | of that small birds | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cover up | past · perfect · passive | that small birds | 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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