The Red Fairy Book, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2, sentence 92

These feathers were all mixed up in such confusion that the birds themselves could not have chosen out their own.

What happens: mix up, not choose out · To what, where: feathers, such confusion, birds

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Graciosa and Percinet, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 feathers	det
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mixed	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mixed	aux:pass
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 mixed	advmod
5	mixed	mix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 mixed	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 confusion	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 confusion	amod
9	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mixed	obl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 chosen	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 chosen	nsubj:pass
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 birds	nmod
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 chosen	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 chosen	advmod
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 chosen	aux
17	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 mixed	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 chosen	compound:prt
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 chosen	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mix up	past · passive		this feathers		such confusion		all property	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	not choose out	could · perfect · passive		the birds birds					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary own=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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