The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 75

The horse-shoer then said that he knew the bird very well; he had seen it when it sat in its cage in another king’s palace, and if it did not sing now it must be because it did not have all that it wanted.

Who acts: horse shoer, shoer, bird · What happens: say, know, see, sit, not sing, be · To what, where: bird, cage · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (horse shoer, shoer, 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	4 shoer	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shoer	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 horse	punct
4	shoer	shoer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 said	advmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 knew	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 knew	nsubj
9	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 knew	obj
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 well	advmod
13	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 knew	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 seen	obj
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 sat	advmod
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	advcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 cage	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cage	nmod:poss
24	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 palace	case
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 king	det
27	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 palace	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 king	case
29	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sing	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sing	cc
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 sing	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 sing	nsubj
34	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 sing	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 sing	advmod
36	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	parataxis
37	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 sing	advmod
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 must	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 sing	conj
40	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 must	xcomp
41	because	because	SCONJ	_	45 have	mark
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 have	nsubj
43	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 have	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 have	advmod
45	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 be	advcl
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	49 wanted	det:predet
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 wanted	mark
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 wanted	nsubj
49	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 have	ccomp
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the horse shoer			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	past	shoer	the bird			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	see	past · perfect	shoer	bird				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
4	sit	past	bird		bird's cage		in another king's palace	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cage=Location
5	not sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	bird			now		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be	infinitive	bird not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not have	past · do-support	bird					tree rules
8	want	past	bird					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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