The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 85
In the Underworld sits a quail on a tree, and I wanted to shoot it.
Who acts: I · What happens: sit, want, shoot · To what, where: quail, Underworld
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 3 Underworld | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Underworld | det |
| 3 | Underworld | underworld | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 quail | det |
| 6 | quail | quail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wanted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wanted | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wanted | nsubj |
| 13 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sits | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 shoot | mark |
| 15 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wanted | xcomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shoot | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a quail | the Underworld | on a tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent quail=Theme in underworld=Location | |||
| 2 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | quail | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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