The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 153

‘Ah, ah! you thought to find your lady love, but the pretty bird has flown and its song is dumb; the cat caught it, and will scratch out your eyes too.

Who acts: you, song, cat, your, love · What happens: think, find, fly, be, catch, scratch out · To what, where: lady love, pretty bird, song, eyes

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, song, cat, your), 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	_	7 thought	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 thought	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	ah	ah	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thought	nsubj
7	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thought	xcomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 love	nmod:poss
11	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 love	compound
12	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 find	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flown	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 flown	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bird	det
16	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flown	nsubj:pass
18	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flown	aux
19	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thought	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 dumb	cc
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 song	nmod:poss
22	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dumb	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 dumb	cop
24	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 flown	conj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 caught	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cat	det
27	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 caught	nsubj
28	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thought	parataxis
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 caught	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 scratch	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 scratch	cc
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 scratch	aux
33	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 caught	conj
34	out	out	ADP	_	33 scratch	compound:prt
35	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 eyes	nmod:poss
36	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 scratch	obj
37	too	too	ADV	_	33 scratch	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	you			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	find	to-infinitive	you not said here	your lady love		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Topic
3	fly	present · perfect · passive		the pretty bird		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is	present	love's song		dumb property	tree rules
5	catch	past	the cat	song		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	scratch out	future	the cat not said here	your eyes		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
7	love		your			nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
8	sing		love			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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