The Red Fairy Book, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless, sentence 217
‘There came flying birds from every part of the world, and all but pecked our eyes out.’
What happens: come, fly, peck out · To what, where: birds, part, eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Death of Koshchei the Deathless. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 came | expl |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flying | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 part | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 part | det |
| 8 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 part | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pecked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pecked | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 pecked | advmod |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 pecked | cc |
| 16 | pecked | peck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pecked | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 16 pecked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | there | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | birds | every part of the world | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bird=Theme from part=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | peck out | past | our eyes | out property | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
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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