The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 15

Then the flock took flight with much screaming, but one fell dead, and the cloak fluttered down.

Who acts: flock, one, cloak · What happens: take, fall, flutter down · To what, where: flight

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, one, cloak), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flock	det
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 screaming	case
7	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 screaming	amod
8	screaming	screaming	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fell	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 fell	nsubj
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fell	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fluttered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 fluttered	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cloak	det
17	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 fluttered	nsubj
18	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 fluttered	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the flock	flight	then	with much screaming	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme
2	fall	past	one			dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flutter down	participle	the cloak				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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