The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 8

It was a white dove, which sat outside the window, and was pecking at it with its beak.

Who acts: pane, white dove · What happens: be, sit, peck · To what, where: white dove, window

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 (pane, white 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dove	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dove	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dove	det
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dove	amod
5	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sat	nsubj
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dove	acl:relcl
9	outside	outside	ADP	_	11 window	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pecking	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pecking	cc
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 pecking	aux
15	pecking	peck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 sat	advcl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 pecking	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 beak	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 beak	nmod:poss
20	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pecking	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	pane	a white dove			tree rules
2	sit	past	a white dove		the window		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent outside window=Location
3	peck	past · progressive	a white dove not said here			with pane's beak; at pane	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent at 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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