The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 66
‘That is all the wild birds in the forest flying about; they are sent to stop us,’ said Dapplegrim.
Who acts: That, forest, wild birds · What happens: be, fly, send, stop, say · To what, where: wild birds, forest, birds, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (That, forest, wild birds), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 birds | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 birds | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 birds | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 birds | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 birds | amod |
| 7 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 birds | nmod |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 forest | acl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 flying | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 sent | aux:pass |
| 16 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 birds | acl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 stop | mark |
| 18 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 sent | advcl |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 stop | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 sent | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | Dapplegrim | Dapplegrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 said | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | That | all wild birds | the forest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the forest not said here | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | present · passive | all wild birds not said here | birds = bird | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | stop | to-infinitive | all wild birds not said here | us | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality we=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | all wild birds | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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