The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 67
‘I cover my head with my wings,’ and as he spoke he lifted his large wings and spread them completely over his head.
Who acts: I, heron · What happens: cover, speak, lift, spread · To what, where: head, large wings, wings · 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 (I, heron), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cover | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 cover | nsubj |
| 3 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cover | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cover | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cover | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 cover | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lifted | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spoke | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spoke | nsubj |
| 14 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lifted | advcl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lifted | nsubj |
| 16 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cover | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 wings | amod |
| 19 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lifted | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spread | cc |
| 21 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lifted | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 spread | obj |
| 23 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 21 spread | advmod |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 head | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 spread | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | present | I | my head | with my wings | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination with wing=Theme | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | heron | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lift | past | heron | heron's large wings | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme | ||||
| 4 | spread | past | heron not said here | wings = wing | heron's head | completely property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme over head=Destination |
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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