The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 48

The poor little thing was very much frightened and cried out as it flew, and the great bird came behind it terribly fast, flapping its wings and craning its beak, for it was hungry and wanted some dinner.

Who acts: thing, great bird, bird · What happens: frighten, cry out, fly, come, flap, crane · To what, where: poor little thing, thing, wings, beak, dinner

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, great bird, bird), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 thing	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thing	amod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 frightened	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	aux:pass
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 frightened	advmod
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 frightened	conj
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 cried	compound:prt
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 flew	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cried	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bird	amod
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 frightened	parataxis
21	behind	behind	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	obl
23	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	24 fast	advmod
24	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 came	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 flapping	punct
26	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 came	advcl
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wings	nmod:poss
28	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 flapping	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 craning	cc
30	craning	crane	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 flapping	conj
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 beak	nmod:poss
32	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 craning	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 hungry	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 hungry	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 hungry	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 hungry	cop
37	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 came	conj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 wanted	cc
39	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 dinner	det
41	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 wanted	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the poor little thing			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	cry out speech: express	participle					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fly	past	thing				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the great bird		thing	fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind it=Location
5	flap	gerund	the great bird not said here	thing's wings			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
6	crane	gerund	the great bird not said here	thing's beak			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beak=Patient
7	is	past	bird			hungry property	tree rules
8	want	past	the great bird not said here	some dinner			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot dinner=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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