The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 92
The young man quickly entered the church, and saw a bird flying about, but he could not catch it.
Who acts: young man, bird, man · What happens: enter, see, fly, not catch · To what, where: church, 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 (young man, bird, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | nsubj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 entered | advmod |
| 5 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 church | det |
| 7 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 entered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 entered | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 bird | acl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 flying | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 catch | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 catch | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 catch | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 catch | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 catch | advmod |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 catch | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the young man | the church | quickly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme church=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | past | a bird | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | a bird not said here | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not catch | could | man | church | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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/pg5615/22/92/