The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 131

However, he was determined not to let this bird fly away; so he took up some water in the palm of his hand and held it to its beak.

Who acts: Désiré, bird · What happens: be, not let, fly away, take up, hold · To what, where: bird, water, palm

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Désiré, bird), 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	However	however	ADV	_	5 determined	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 determined	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 determined	cop
5	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 let	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 let	mark
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 determined	ccomp
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 let	obj
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
12	away	away	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 took	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 determined	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 took	compound:prt
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 palm	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 palm	det
22	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obl
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 hand	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 hand	nmod:poss
25	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 palm	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 held	cc
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 beak	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 beak	nmod:poss
31	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Désiré			determined, however property	tree rules
2	not let	to-infinitive	Désiré not said here	this bird			tree rules
3	fly away	infinitive	this bird not said here			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take up	past	Désiré	some water	the palm of Désiré's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in palm=Location
5	hold	past	Désiré not said here	water		to water's beak	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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