The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 61

The bird struggled and piped, but there was no one to hear it, and then, crying out loud with the pain, it flew from the house and was lost in the depths of the forest.

Who acts: bird · What happens: struggle, pipe, be, hear, fly, lose · To what, where: bird, one, house, depths

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 (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	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nsubj
3	struggled	struggle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bird	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 piped	cc
5	piped	pipe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 struggled	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 was	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 was	cc
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 hear	mark
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 one	acl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crying	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 crying	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crying	punct
19	crying	cry	NOUN	_	11 one	appos
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 crying	compound:prt
21	loud	loud	ADV	_	19 crying	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 pain	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pain	det
24	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crying	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 flew	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 flew	nsubj
27	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 one	parataxis
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 flew	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lost	cc
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 lost	aux:pass
33	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 flew	conj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 depths	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 depths	det
36	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 lost	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 forest	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 forest	det
39	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 depths	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	struggle	participle		the bird not said here		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pipe	participle				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the bird	no one		tree rules
4	hear	to-infinitive		bird		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	fly	past	bird		the house	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory
6	lose	past · passive	bird not said here		the depths of the forest	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in depth=Eventuality

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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