The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 94

At these words the griffin appeared, and, seizing the bird, gave it to the youth, who carried it off carefully, while the griffin flew away.

Who acts: griffin, youth · What happens: appear, seize, give, carry off, fly away · To what, where: words, bird, youth

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 (griffin, youth), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 appeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 griffin	det
5	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 appeared	nsubj
6	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seizing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seizing	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seizing	punct
10	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 appeared	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seizing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 appeared	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 youth	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 youth	det
18	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gave	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 carried	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 carried	nsubj
21	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 youth	acl:relcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 carried	obj
23	off	off	ADP	_	21 carried	compound:prt
24	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	21 carried	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flew	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 flew	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 griffin	det
28	griffin	griffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 flew	nsubj
29	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 gave	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 flew	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	appear	past	the griffin			this words		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at word=Location
2	seize	gerund	the griffin not said here	the bird				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
3	give	past	the griffin not said here	bird	the youth			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to youth=Recipient
4	carry off	past	the youth	bird			carefully property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	fly away	past	the griffin				away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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