The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 29
Then she fetched a bowl of water, and the cock and hen flew on to the edge, put their beaks in, and then held up their heads as birds do when they drink, and the brindled cow also drank her fill.
Who acts: maiden, cock, birds, brindled cow · What happens: fetch, fly, put, hold up, do, drink · To what, where: bowl, beaks, heads, fill
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, cock, birds, brindled cow), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 fetched | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fetched | nsubj |
| 3 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bowl | det |
| 5 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fetched | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowl | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | nsubj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hen | cc |
| 13 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cock | conj |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fetched | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 flew | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edge | det |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 flew | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beaks | nmod:poss |
| 22 | beaks | beak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 put | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADV | _ | 20 put | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 held | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 held | cc |
| 26 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 held | advmod |
| 27 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fetched | conj |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 held | compound:prt |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heads | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 held | obj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 32 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 do | nsubj |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 held | advcl |
| 34 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 36 drink | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 drink | nsubj |
| 36 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | advcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 drank | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 drank | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 cow | det |
| 40 | brindled | brindled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 cow | amod |
| 41 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 drank | nsubj |
| 42 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 drank | advmod |
| 43 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fetched | conj |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 fill | nmod:poss |
| 45 | fill | fill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 drank | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fetched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | past | maiden | a bowl of water | then | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | |||
| 2 | fly | past | the cock and hen | to the edge result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to edge=Result | ||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the cock and hen not said here | cock's beaks | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent beak=Goal | ||||
| 4 | hold up | past | maiden not said here | cock's heads | then | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot head=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | present | birds | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | drink | present | birds = bird | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | drink | past | the brindled cow | maiden's fill | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/3/29/