The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 53
He soon came up to the great bird, who was standing on a stone on the edge of the river watching for a nice fat fish.
Who acts: heron, great bird, river · What happens: come up, stand, watch · To what, where: stone
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, great bird, river), 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 came | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 bird | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 standing | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 standing | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 standing | aux |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 bird | acl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 edge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 edge | det |
| 18 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 edge | nmod |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 river | acl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 fish | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 fish | det |
| 25 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fish | amod |
| 26 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fish | compound |
| 27 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 watching | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | heron | to the great bird; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bird=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · progressive | the great bird | a stone | on the edge of the river | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stone=Location | |||
| 3 | watch | gerund | the river not said here | for a nice fat fish | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for fish=Theme |
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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