The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 21
Thereupon the little dove seized one piece of wood after another and split it with its beak.
Who acts: little dove · What happens: seize, split · To what, where: one piece, dove
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 (little dove), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 seized | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dove | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 dove | amod |
| 4 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | nsubj |
| 5 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 piece | nummod |
| 7 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seized | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 piece | nmod |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 another | case |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 seized | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 split | cc |
| 13 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seized | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 split | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 beak | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 beak | nmod:poss |
| 17 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 split | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | the little dove | one piece of wood | after another | thereupon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||
| 2 | split | infinitive | the little dove not said here | dove | with dove's beak | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with beak=Instrument |
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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