The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 25

‘Yes, a bird flew over the roof with a Christian man’s bone in his bill, and let it fall down our chimney,’ answered the Princess.

Who acts: bird, man · What happens: fly, let, fall down, answer, bill · To what, where: roof, bird, chimney, Princess

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, man), 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	_	6 flew	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 flew	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 roof	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 bone	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 man	amod
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bone	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 man	case
15	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 bill	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bill	nmod:poss
18	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bone	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 let	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 let	cc
21	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 let	obj
23	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 let	xcomp
24	down	down	ADP	_	23 fall	compound:prt
25	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 chimney	nmod:poss
26	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 fall	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 answered	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	29 answered	punct
29	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flew	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Princess	det
31	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 answered	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	past	a bird			the roof	with a Christian man's bone in man's bill	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent over roof=Location
2	let	infinitive	a bird not said here	bird				tree rules
3	fall down	infinitive	bird not said here	our chimney				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	answer speech: assert	past	a bird not said here		the Princess			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality
5	bill		man					nom bill «communication transitive»: 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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