The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 9

He opened the window, and the dove came in and set to work at once, and picked all the feathers out of the heap with its beak.

Who acts: voice, dove · What happens: open, come in, set, work, pick · To what, where: window, feathers, heap

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 (voice, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dove	det
8	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	parataxis
10	in	in	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 set	cc
12	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 came	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 work	mark
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 set	xcomp
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 once	case
16	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 work	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 picked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 picked	cc
19	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 feathers	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 feathers	det
22	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 picked	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 heap	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 heap	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heap	det
26	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 picked	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 beak	case
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 beak	nmod:poss
29	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heap	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	open	past	voice	the window		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location window=Theme
2	come in	past	the dove			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	set	infinitive	the dove not said here			tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	the dove not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme
5	pick	past	voice not said here	all feathers	the heap with dove's beak	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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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