The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 16

He found it all just as he had been told: the portico, the wood, the magnificent tree, and the beautiful bird, which was sleeping soundly on one of the branches.

Who acts: Prince, beautiful bird · What happens: find, tell, sleep · To what, where: departure, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, beautiful 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	obj
4	all	all	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	10 told	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 told	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	aux
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 told	aux:pass
10	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	advcl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 portico	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 portico	det
13	portico	portico	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wood	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 portico	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tree	det
19	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tree	amod
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 portico	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 bird	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 bird	cc
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bird	det
24	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bird	amod
25	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 portico	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sleeping	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 sleeping	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sleeping	aux
29	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 bird	acl
30	soundly	soundly	ADV	_	29 sleeping	advmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 one	case
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 sleeping	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 branches	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 branches	det
35	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 one	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	past	Prince	departure		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		Prince	the portico and the magnificent tree and the beautiful bird obl; all property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	sleep	past · progressive	the beautiful bird		on one of the branches; soundly property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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