The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 37
Within that church is a bird which flies up and down; it never eats, and never drinks, and never dies.
Who acts: bird, church · What happens: be, fly up, not eat, not drink, not die · 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 (bird, church), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 church | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 church | det |
| 3 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 flies | nsubj |
| 8 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | acl:relcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 flies | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 down | cc |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 up | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 eats | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 eats | nsubj |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 eats | advmod |
| 15 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drinks | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drinks | cc |
| 18 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 19 drinks | advmod |
| 19 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 eats | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dies | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dies | cc |
| 22 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 23 dies | advmod |
| 23 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 eats | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a bird | within that church | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly up | present | a bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not eat | present | church | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not drink | present | church not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not die | present | church not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/22/37/