The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 7

Go on your way, and in a short time you will come to a tree on which sit nine birds who have a cloak in their claws and are quarrelling over it.

Who acts: you, nine birds · What happens: go, come, sit, have, quarrell · To what, where: way, tree, nine birds, cloak, claws

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 (you, nine 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	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 way	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 way	nmod:poss
4	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 come	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 come	cc
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 come	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 come	aux
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	19 sit	mark
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 sit	nsubj
19	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 come	advcl
20	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 birds	nummod
21	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sit	obj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 have	nsubj
23	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 birds	acl:relcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 cloak	det
25	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 have	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 claws	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 claws	nmod:poss
28	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 have	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 quarrelling	cc
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 quarrelling	aux
31	quarrelling	quarrell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 have	conj
32	over	over	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 quarrelling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		your way		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	come	future	you		a tree	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location
3	sit	present		nine birds			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
4	have	present	nine birds	a cloak	birds's claws		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
5	quarrell	present · progressive	nine birds not said here		cloak		tree rules

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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