The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 45

Filled with joy at his cure, he tried to seize the bird to whom he owed it all, but, swifter than a swallow, it managed to avoid him.

Who acts: cure, bird, swifter · What happens: fill, try, seize, owe, manage, avoid · To what, where: bird, joy

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 (cure, bird, swifter), 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	Filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cure	advcl
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 joy	case
3	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Filled	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 cure	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cure	nmod:poss
6	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tried	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cure	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tried	nsubj
9	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 seize	mark
11	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 tried	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bird	det
13	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seize	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 whom	case
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 seize	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 owed	nsubj
17	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whom	acl:relcl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 owed	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 it	det
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 managed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 managed	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swifter	punct
23	swifter	swifter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 managed	nsubj
24	than	than	ADP	_	26 swallow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 swallow	det
26	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swifter	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swifter	punct
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 managed	nsubj
29	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tried	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 avoid	mark
31	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 managed	xcomp
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 avoid	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fill	participle	bird's cure not said here		with joy	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with joy=Instrument
2	try	past	bird's cure			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive	bird's cure not said here	the bird		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
4	owe	past	bird	joy		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	manage	past	swifter than a swallow			vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	avoid	to-infinitive	swifter than a swallow not said here	bird		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent he=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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