The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 95

The fir-tree stood quite astonished and thoughtful; the birds in the wood had never related anything like that.

Who acts: fir tree, birds · What happens: stand, have · To what, where: anything

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 (fir tree, birds), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	fir	fir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fir	punct
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 astonished	advmod
7	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stood	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thoughtful	cc
9	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 astonished	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 birds	det
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 had	nsubj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 birds	nmod
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	conj
17	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 related	advmod
18	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 anything	amod
19	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	16 had	obj
20	like	like	ADP	_	21 that	case
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 anything	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the fir tree					astonished property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	the birds in the wood	anything				like that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=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 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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