The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 51

The old man was fond of all creatures, and every morning he used to open the cage door, and the sparrow flew happily about until it caught sight of a cat or a rat or some other fierce beast, when it would instantly return to the cage, knowing that there no harm could come to it.

Who acts: old man, man, sparrow, some, harm · What happens: be, use, open, fly, catch, beast · To what, where: cage door, sight, cage, cat · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, man, sparrow, some), 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	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fond	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	cop
5	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 creatures	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 creatures	det
8	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fond	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 used	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 used	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 used	obl:unmarked
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 used	nsubj
14	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 open	mark
16	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 used	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 door	det
18	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 door	compound
19	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 open	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 flew	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flew	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sparrow	det
23	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 flew	nsubj
24	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fond	parataxis
25	happily	happily	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
26	about	about	ADV	_	24 flew	advmod
27	until	until	SCONJ	_	29 caught	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 caught	nsubj
29	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 flew	advcl
30	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caught	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 cat	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cat	det
33	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sight	nmod
34	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 rat	cc
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 rat	det
36	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sight	conj
37	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 beast	cc
38	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 beast	nsubj
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 beast	amod
40	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 beast	amod
41	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 sight	conj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 return	punct
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 return	mark
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 return	nsubj
45	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 return	aux
46	instantly	instantly	ADV	_	47 return	advmod
47	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 caught	conj
48	to	to	ADP	_	50 cage	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 cage	det
50	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 return	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 knowing	punct
52	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 return	advcl
53	that	that	SCONJ	_	58 come	mark
54	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	58 come	expl
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 harm	det
56	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 come	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 come	aux
58	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 knowing	ccomp
59	to	to	ADP	_	60 it	case
60	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 come	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fond	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the old man				of all creatures; fond property	tree rules
2	use	past	man			morning		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	open	to-infinitive	man not said here	the cage door				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	fly	past	the sparrow				about, happily property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	catch	past	Sparrow	sight of a cat or a rat or other fierce beast				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
6	beast		some					tree rules
7	return	would	Sparrow				to the cage result; instantly property	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cage=Result
8	know	gerund	Sparrow not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	come	could	no harm		cage; there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location
10	sight			a cat				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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