The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 10

The same thing happened with those who kept watch in the room beside the bird Grip, and when he threw the third grain into its cage the bird also fell asleep.

Who acts: same thing, thing, bird · What happens: happen, keep, throw, fall · To what, where: watch, room, third grain, cage

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same thing, thing, bird), 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	3 thing	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 those	case
6	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 happened	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 kept	nsubj
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 those	acl:relcl
9	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 room	det
12	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
13	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 Grip	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Grip	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Grip	compound
16	Grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kept	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 threw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 threw	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 threw	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	nsubj
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 grain	det
23	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 grain	amod
24	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 cage	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cage	nmod:poss
27	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 threw	obl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 bird	det
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fell	nsubj
30	also	also	ADV	_	31 fell	advmod
31	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cage	acl:relcl
32	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fell	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	happen	past	the same thing			with those	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past		watch	the room	beside the bird Grip	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme in room=Location
3	throw	past	thing	the third grain		into room's cage result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer grain=Theme into cage=Result
4	fall	past	the bird	room's cage not said here		asleep property	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cage=Result

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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