The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 39

One day, when he had been left alone for a few minutes, a bird with brilliant plumage came and fluttered round the window, and finally rested on the sill.

Who acts: bird · What happens: leave, come, flutter, rest · To what, where: Saphir, sill

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 left	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 left	aux:pass
8	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 left	xcomp
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 minutes	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 minutes	det
12	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 minutes	amod
13	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 left	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bird	det
16	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 plumage	case
18	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 plumage	amod
19	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bird	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fluttered	cc
22	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 came	conj
23	round	round	ADP	_	25 window	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 window	det
25	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fluttered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 rested	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 rested	cc
28	finally	finally	ADV	_	29 rested	advmod
29	rested	rest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 left	conj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 sill	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sill	det
32	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rested	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect · passive		Saphir		day; minute	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past	a bird with brilliant plumage					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flutter	participle	a bird with brilliant plumage not said here				round the window	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rest	participle			the sill		finally property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sill=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 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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