The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 56
She threw her broom at the bird, who was perched on a bracket high up on the wall.
Who acts: brow · What happens: throw, perch · To what, where: broom, bird, bracket
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 (brow), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 threw | nsubj |
| 2 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 broom | nmod:poss |
| 4 | broom | broom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 bird | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 threw | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 perched | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 perched | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 perched | aux:pass |
| 11 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bird | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bracket | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bracket | det |
| 14 | bracket | bracket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perched | obl |
| 15 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 up | advmod |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 11 perched | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wall | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wall | det |
| 19 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 perched | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | brow | brow's broom | at the bird | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent broom=Theme at bird=Destination | |||
| 2 | perch | past · passive | the bird | a bracket | on the wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bracket=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/56/