The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 17

He speedily lopped off the branch, and though he noticed a splendid golden cage hanging close by, which would have been very useful for the bird to travel in, he left it alone, and came back to the fountain, holding his breath and walking on tip-toe all the way, for fear lest he should awake his prize.

Who acts: Prince, splendid golden cage · What happens: lop off, notice, hang, be, travel, leave · To what, where: branch, splendid golden cage, cage, fountain, breath, way

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, splendid golden cage), 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	3 lopped	nsubj
2	speedily	speedily	ADV	_	3 lopped	advmod
3	lopped	lop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 branch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lopped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 noticed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 noticed	cc
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	11 noticed	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 noticed	nsubj
11	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lopped	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cage	det
13	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cage	amod
14	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cage	amod
15	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 noticed	obj
16	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 cage	acl
17	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 hanging	advmod
18	by	by	ADP	_	16 hanging	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 useful	punct
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 useful	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 useful	aux
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 useful	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 useful	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 useful	advmod
25	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 cage	conj
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 bird	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bird	det
28	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 useful	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 travel	mark
30	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 bird	acl
31	in	in	ADV	_	30 travel	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 left	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	nsubj
34	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 noticed	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 left	obj
36	alone	alone	ADV	_	34 left	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 came	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 came	cc
39	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lopped	conj
40	back	back	ADV	_	39 came	advmod
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 fountain	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 fountain	det
43	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 holding	punct
45	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 came	advcl
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 breath	nmod:poss
47	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 holding	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 walking	cc
49	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 holding	conj
50	on	on	ADP	_	53 toe	case
51	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 toe	compound
52	-	-	PUNCT	_	51 tip	punct
53	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 walking	obl
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	56 way	det:predet
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 way	det
56	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 walking	obl:unmarked
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 fear	punct
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 fear	case
59	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 came	parataxis
60	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	63 awake	mark
61	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 awake	nsubj
62	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	63 awake	aux
63	awake	awake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 fear	acl
64	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 prize	nmod:poss
65	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 awake	obj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lop off	past	Prince	the branch		speedily property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Theme
2	notice	past	Prince	a splendid golden cage			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cage=Stimulus
3	hang	gerund	a splendid golden cage not said here			close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would · perfect	a splendid golden cage			for the bird; useful property	tree rules
5	travel	to-infinitive	a splendid golden cage not said here				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	leave	past	Prince	cage		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	come back	past	Prince not said here		the fountain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fountain=Initial_Location
8	hold	gerund	Prince not said here	Prince's breath			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
9	walk	gerund	Prince not said here	all way	tip toe		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Trajectory
10	awake	should	Prince	Prince's prize			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location prize=Theme

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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