The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 105
But the field and wood sparrows, the larks and finches, blackbirds and green finches had picked up the millet long ago, and the girl could not find her way.
Who acts: girl · What happens: pick up, not find · To what, where: larks, way
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 picked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 field | det |
| 3 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sparrows | cc |
| 5 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sparrows | compound |
| 6 | sparrows | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 field | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 field | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 larks | det |
| 9 | larks | lark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 finches | cc |
| 11 | finches | finch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 larks | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blackbirds | punct |
| 13 | blackbirds | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 larks | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 finches | cc |
| 15 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 finches | amod |
| 16 | finches | finch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 larks | conj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 picked | aux |
| 18 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 picked | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 millet | det |
| 21 | millet | millet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 picked | obj |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 ago | advmod |
| 23 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 18 picked | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 find | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 find | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girl | det |
| 27 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 find | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 find | advmod |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 picked | advcl |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 way | nmod:poss |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · perfect · passive | the larks and finches and blackbirds and green finches | the field and wood sparrows obl:unmarked; ago property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | could | the girl | girl's way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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