The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 28
There was once a dove who built a nice soft nest as a home for her three little ones.
Who acts: dove · What happens: be, build · To what, where: nice soft nest
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 was | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dove | det |
| 5 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 built | nsubj |
| 7 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dove | acl:relcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 nest | det |
| 9 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nest | amod |
| 10 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nest | amod |
| 11 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 home | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 home | det |
| 14 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 built | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 ones | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 ones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 ones | nummod |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 ones | amod |
| 19 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 built | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a dove | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | build | past | a dove | a nice soft nest | as a home; for Dove's three little ones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent nest=Material for one=Beneficiary |
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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