The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 97
Then the bird—having taken the vessel on her back, with the Prince sitting in the middle of it—began to fly.
Who acts: bird, Prince · What happens: take, sit, begin, fly · To what, where: vessel, back, middle
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 (bird, Prince), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bird | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | aux |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 bird | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vessel | det |
| 8 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 sitting | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Prince | det |
| 15 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 taken | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 middle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 middle | det |
| 19 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 middle | nmod |
| 22 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 fly | mark |
| 25 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 began | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund · perfect | the bird not said here | the vessel | lightning's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | the Prince | the middle of vessel | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 4 | fly | to-infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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