The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 43
And when he saw the dove he cried out a second time, ‘Ohe, ohe, mother dove! give me one of your little ones, or I will jump on your nest and eat you all up.’
Who acts: heron, Ohe, I · What happens: see, cry out, give, jump, eat up · To what, where: dove, one, me, nest, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heron, Ohe, I), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dove | det |
| 6 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dove | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 cried | compound:prt |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ohe | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Ohe | punct |
| 15 | Ohe | Ohe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 give | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ohe | punct |
| 17 | ohe | ohe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Ohe | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dove | punct |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 dove | compound |
| 20 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Ohe | appos |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 dove | punct |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 give | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ones | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 ones | nmod:poss |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ones | amod |
| 28 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 jump | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 jump | cc |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 jump | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 jump | aux |
| 33 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 nest | case |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 nest | nmod:poss |
| 36 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 jump | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 eat | cc |
| 38 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 jump | conj |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 eat | obj |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 you | nmod:unmarked |
| 41 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 eat | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | heron | the dove | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | heron | the dove not said here | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Topic | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | Ohe and ohe | one of your little ones | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 4 | jump | future | I | your nest | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on nest=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | eat up | present | I not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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