The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 100
So he pinched the bird, and the old man cried, ‘Ah!
Who acts: man, old man · What happens: pinch, cry · To what, where: bird
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, old man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 pinched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pinched | nsubj |
| 3 | pinched | pinch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pinched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | nsubj |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pinched | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ah | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ah | punct |
| 14 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 11 cried | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 pinched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pinch | past | man | the bird | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old man | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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