The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 23

The dove then flew up on his shoulder and sat there and the prince thanked it, and stroked and caressed its white feathers, and kissed its little red beak.

Who acts: dove, prince · What happens: fly up, sit, thank, stroke, caress, kiss · To what, where: shoulder, dove, white feathers, little red beak

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 (dove, prince), 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	2 dove	det
2	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 flew	advmod
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoulder	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulder	nmod:poss
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sat	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 thanked	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thanked	nsubj
15	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 thanked	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stroked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stroked	cc
19	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	parataxis
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 caressed	cc
21	caressed	caress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 stroked	conj
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feathers	nmod:poss
23	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feathers	amod
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 caressed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 kissed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 kissed	cc
27	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 flew	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 beak	nmod:poss
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beak	amod
30	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 beak	amod
31	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 kissed	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fly up	past	the dove		prince's shoulder	then	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location
2	sit	past	the dove not said here		there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	thank speech: thank	past	the prince	dove			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	stroke	past					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	caress	past		dove's white feathers			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Experiencer
6	kiss	past	the dove not said here	dove's little red beak			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Co-Agent

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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