The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 35
She whistled and called, but only the birds answered her.
Who acts: Lion, birds · What happens: whistle, call, answer · To what, where: Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Lion, birds), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 whistled | nsubj |
| 2 | whistled | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 called | cc |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whistled | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 birds | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whistled | parataxis |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answered | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whistled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whistle | past | Lion | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | past | Lion not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the birds | Lion | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
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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