The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1, sentence 43
Greedy for carrion, and sure that this must be a fresh corpse, the bird swooped down upon the boy.
Who acts: this, bird · What happens: be, swoop down · To what, where: fresh corpse
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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 | Greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 carrion | case |
| 3 | carrion | carrion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Greedy | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sure | cc |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Greedy | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 corpse | mark |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 corpse | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 corpse | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 corpse | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 corpse | det |
| 12 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 corpse | amod |
| 13 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swooped | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bird | det |
| 16 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swooped | nsubj |
| 17 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 corpse | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 swooped | advmod |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 boy | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swooped | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Greedy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | this | a fresh corpse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swoop down | past | the bird | upon the boy; down property | 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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