The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 80
And when they looked to it the bird had spoken the truth, for blood was trickling out of the shoe.
Who acts: Fills, blood · What happens: look, speak, trickle · To what, where: blood, bird, shoe · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fills, blood), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spoken | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 looked | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoken | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spoken | aux |
| 10 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 truth | det |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoken | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 trickling | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 trickling | mark |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trickling | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 trickling | aux |
| 17 | trickling | trickle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 spoken | advcl |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 shoe | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 shoe | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 shoe | det |
| 21 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 trickling | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spoken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Fills = fill | blood | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the bird | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | trickle | past · progressive | blood | the shoe | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out shoe=Location |
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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