The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 19
Then the white dove came flying and settled down on the pile of wood, and cooed and said, ‘Shall I help you?’
Who acts: white dove, I · What happens: come, fly, settle down, coo, say, help · To what, where: pile, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white dove, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dove | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dove | amod |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 settled | cc |
| 8 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 settled | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 pile | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pile | det |
| 12 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 settled | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pile | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cooed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cooed | cc |
| 17 | cooed | coo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 cooed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 22 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 help | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 help | nsubj |
| 24 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 help | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the white dove | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the white dove not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | settle down | past | the white dove not said here | the pile of wood | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | coo | past | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | help | shall | I | you | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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