The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 115
By the side of the pool stood the tree of beauty, with the talking bird on one of its boughs; and she caught the bird, and placed it in a cage, and broke off one of the branches.
Who acts: girl · What happens: stand, catch, place, break off · To what, where: tree, bird, cage, one
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 side | det |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pool | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pool | det |
| 6 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 side | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beauty | case |
| 11 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bird | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bird | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 15 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bird | compound |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 bird | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 boughs | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 boughs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 caught | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 caught | cc |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 caught | nsubj |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bird | det |
| 27 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 placed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 placed | cc |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 placed | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 cage | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cage | det |
| 34 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 placed | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 broke | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 broke | cc |
| 37 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | conj |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 broke | compound:prt |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 broke | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 branches | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 branches | det |
| 42 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 one | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the tree of beauty | by the side of the pool; with the talking bird on one of pool's boughs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme by side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | girl | the bird | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | place | past | girl not said here | tree | a cage | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cage=Destination | |||
| 4 | break off | past | girl not said here | one of the branches | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=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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