The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 123

He thought of that first, and it was fastened to one of the great white birds who flew behind with the sledge on its back.

Who acts: sledge, great white birds · What happens: think, fasten, fly · To what, where: kiss, one, back

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sledge, great white birds), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 that	case
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 thought	obl
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 thought	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fastened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fastened	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fastened	nsubj:pass
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fastened	aux:pass
10	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 fastened	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 birds	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 birds	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 birds	amod
17	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 birds	acl:relcl
20	behind	behind	ADV	_	19 flew	advmod
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 sledge	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sledge	det
23	sledge	sledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 back	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 back	nmod:poss
26	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	sledge				of that; first property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fasten	past · passive		kiss	one of the great white birds			vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to one=Co-Patient
3	fly	past	the great white birds			kiss's back	with the sledge; behind property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on back=Location

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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