The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 12
In spring, when the swallows and storks came, the fir-tree asked them, ‘Do you know where they were taken?
Who acts: swallows, fir tree, you · What happens: come, ask, know, take · To what, where: swallows · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swallows, fir tree, you), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 spring | case |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 spring | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 came | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 swallows | det |
| 6 | swallows | swallow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 storks | cc |
| 8 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swallows | conj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 12 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 fir | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 came | parataxis |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 know | punct |
| 19 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | conj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 taken | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 taken | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 taken | aux:pass |
| 25 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 know | ccomp |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the swallows and storks | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the fir tree | swallows = swallow | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | take | past · passive | swallows = swallow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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