The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 38
No one can catch it, and while that bird lives so shall I, for in it is my heart.’
Who acts: one, bird · What happens: catch, live, be · To what, where: church
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 (one, bird), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | aux |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 catch | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lives | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lives | cc |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 lives | mark |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lives | nsubj |
| 11 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 catch | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 shall | advmod |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 lives | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 shall | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heart | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 heart | cop |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 catch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | can | no one | church | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | that bird | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | bird | for my heart | tree rules |
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/pg5615/22/38/