The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 58

Esben had noticed that she had such a dove; so when he arrived in the courtyard he shook the peas out of the bag, and the dove came fluttering down to pick them up.

Who acts: Esben, stick, king, dove · What happens: notice, have, arrive, shake, come, flutter down · To what, where: dove, courtyard, peas, bag, Esben

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Esben, stick, king, 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	Esben	Esben	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 noticed	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	aux
3	noticed	notice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	ccomp
7	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	9 dove	det:predet
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dove	det
9	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 arrived	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	14 arrived	advmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 arrived	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 arrived	nsubj
14	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 noticed	parataxis
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 courtyard	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 courtyard	det
17	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrived	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shook	nsubj
19	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 courtyard	acl:relcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 peas	det
21	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 shook	obj
22	out	out	ADP	_	25 bag	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 bag	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bag	det
25	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 peas	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 came	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 came	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dove	det
29	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 came	nsubj
30	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 arrived	conj
31	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 came	xcomp
32	down	down	ADV	_	31 fluttering	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	34 pick	mark
34	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 fluttering	advcl
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 pick	obj
36	up	up	ADP	_	34 pick	compound:prt
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past · perfect	Esben				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	stick	such dove			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Patient
3	arrive	past	king		the courtyard		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shake	past	king	the peas	the bag		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pea=Theme out bag=Trajectory
5	come	past	the dove				tree rules
6	flutter down	gerund	the dove not said here			down property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	pick up	to-infinitive	the dove not said here	Esben			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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