The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 52
His only idea was to make straight for those spots which were the favourite haunts of birds.
Who acts: only idea, spots · What happens: be · To what, where: favourite haunts
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 (only idea, spots), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 idea | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 idea | amod |
| 3 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 spots | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 spots | det |
| 10 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 haunts | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 haunts | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 haunts | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 haunts | amod |
| 15 | haunts | haunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spots | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 birds | case |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 haunts | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | bird's only idea | for that spots; make, straight property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | that spots | the favourite haunts | of birds | 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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