The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 44

At this moment the bird suddenly awakened, and, flying on to Saphir’s shoulder (which it never afterwards left), began fondling him as well as a bird can do.

Who acts: bird · What happens: awaken, fly on, not leave, begin, fondle, do · To what, where: bird, shoulder, hand

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 (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	At	at	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awakened	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 awakened	nsubj:pass
6	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	7 awakened	advmod
7	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 began	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 began	cc
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flying	punct
11	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 began	ccomp
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 flying	compound:prt
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 shoulder	case
14	Saphir	Saphir	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 shoulder	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 Saphir	case
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flying	obl
17	(	(	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 left	nsubj:pass
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 left	nsubj:pass
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	22 left	advmod
21	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	22 left	advmod
22	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 shoulder	acl:relcl
23	)	)	PUNCT	_	22 left	punct
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flying	punct
25	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 awakened	conj
26	fondling	fondle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 began	xcomp
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 fondling	obj
28	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	34 do	cc
29	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 as	fixed
30	as	as	ADP	_	28 as	fixed
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 bird	det
32	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 do	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 do	aux
34	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 fondling	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awaken	participle · passive		the bird	moment	suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	fly on	gerund				to Saphir's shoulder result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to shoulder=Result
3	not leave	participle · passive		Saphir's shoulder		afterwards property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	begin	past					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fondle	gerund		hand			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer
6	do	can	a bird				vn act-114-1 «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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