The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 25

He has a bird’s heart in him, and so every morning there lies a gold piece under his pillow.’

Who acts: Hunter, morning · What happens: have, lie · To what, where: heart, gold piece, pillow

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 (Hunter, morning), 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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bird	det
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heart	nmod:poss
5	’s	's	PART	_	4 bird	case
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heart	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lies	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lies	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	15 lies	advmod
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lies	nsubj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 morning	advmod
15	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 piece	det
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 piece	compound
18	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lies	obj
19	under	under	ADP	_	21 pillow	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 pillow	nmod:poss
21	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lies	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hunter	a bird's heart				in treasure	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient
2	lie	present	every morning	a gold piece		Hunter's pillow			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=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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