The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 27

He was floating sadly along, not paying any heed to where he was going, when he saw in the distance a beautiful, bright sort of bird coming towards him.

Who acts: Souci, beautiful bright sort · What happens: float, not pay, go, see, come, sort · To what, where: heed, bird

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Souci, beautiful bright sort), 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	3 floating	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 floating	aux
3	floating	float	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	5 along	advmod
5	along	along	ADV	_	3 floating	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 paying	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 paying	advmod
8	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 floating	conj
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 heed	det
10	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 paying	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 where	case
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 paying	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 going	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 going	aux
15	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 where	advcl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 saw	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 saw	nsubj
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 floating	conj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 distance	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 distance	det
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sort	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sort	amod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 beautiful	punct
26	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sort	amod
27	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 distance	nmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 bird	case
29	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 sort	nmod
30	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 sort	acl
31	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 coming	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 floating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	float	past · progressive	Souci		along property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not pay	gerund	Souci not said here	any heed		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
3	go	past · progressive	Souci			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	Souci		in the distance a beautiful bright sort of bird	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	come	gerund	a beautiful bright sort of bird not said here		towards Souci	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location
6	sort			bird		nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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