The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 36

Meanwhile the mother dove sat on the edge of her nest, crying bitterly, when a heron, who was flying slowly past the rock, was filled with pity for her, and stopped to ask, ‘What is the matter, you poor dove?’

Who acts: mother dove, heron, you · What happens: sit, cry, fly, fill, stop, ask · To what, where: edge, rock, heron, matter

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 (mother dove, heron, you), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dove	det
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dove	compound
4	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 nest	nmod:poss
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crying	punct
13	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 sat	advcl
14	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	13 crying	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 filled	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 filled	mark
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 heron	det
18	heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	nsubj:pass
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flying	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 flying	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 flying	aux
22	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 heron	acl
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	22 flying	advmod
24	past	past	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flying	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 heron	punct
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 filled	aux:pass
29	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sat	conj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 pity	case
31	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 filled	obl
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 her	case
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 filled	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stopped	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 stopped	cc
36	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 ask	mark
38	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 stopped	xcomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 matter	punct
40	‘	'	PUNCT	_	44 matter	punct
41	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	44 matter	nsubj
42	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 matter	cop
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 matter	det
44	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 ask	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 dove	punct
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 dove	nsubj
47	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 dove	amod
48	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	parataxis
49	?	?	PUNCT	_	48 dove	punct
50	’	'	PUNCT	_	48 dove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the mother dove		the edge of Dove's nest	meanwhile property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on edge=Location
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the mother dove not said here			bitterly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past · progressive	a heron		the rock	slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past rock=Trajectory
4	fill	past · passive		a heron		with pity; for Dove	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with pity=Instrument
5	stop	past	the mother dove not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	the mother dove not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	present		the matter			tree rules
8	dove		you				tree rules

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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