The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 2
And the branch shot up into a tree, and was heavy with flowers, and the talking bird nestled in its branches.
Who acts: branch · What happens: shoot up, be, nestle · To what, where: tree, talking bird, branches
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (branch), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 shot | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 branch | det |
| 3 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | nsubj |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shot | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heavy | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heavy | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 heavy | cop |
| 12 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shot | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 flowers | case |
| 14 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 heavy | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bird | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bird | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 18 | talking | talking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bird | compound |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | parataxis |
| 20 | nestled | nestle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bird | acl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 branches | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 branches | nmod:poss |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 nestled | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot up | past | the branch | a tree | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the branch not said here | with flowers; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | nestle | participle | the talking bird not said here | branch's branches | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in branch=Location |
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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