The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 88
No, no beast had touched her, no bird had borne her away.
What happens: touch, bear away · To what, where: beast, bird
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 touched | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 touched | aux |
| 6 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 touched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 borne | punct |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 borne | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 borne | aux |
| 12 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 touched | conj |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 borne | obj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 borne | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect · passive | no beast | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer she=Result | |||||
| 2 | bear away | past · perfect · passive | no bird | away property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=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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