The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 70

As she was crossing a wood a bird sang to her to pick up a shining pebble which she would find in a fountain close by, and to use it when needed.

Who acts: heroine · What happens: cross, sing, pick up, shine, find, use · To what, where: wood, heroine, shining pebble, fountain, pebble

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (heroine), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 crossing	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crossing	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 crossing	aux
4	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sang	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wood	det
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obj
9	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sang	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pick	mark
13	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sang	advcl
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 pick	compound:prt
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 pebble	det
16	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 pebble	amod
17	pebble	pebble	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pick	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 find	obj
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 find	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pebble	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fountain	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 fountain	det
24	fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl
25	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fountain	amod
26	by	by	ADP	_	25 close	fixed
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 use	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 use	cc
29	to	to	PART	_	30 use	mark
30	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 sang	parataxis
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 use	obj
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 needed	advmod
33	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 use	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	cross	past · progressive	heroine	a wood			tree rules
2	sing speech: express	past			heroine		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
3	pick up	to-infinitive		a shining pebble			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic
4	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	would	heroine	a shining pebble		a fountain	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
6	use	to-infinitive		pebble			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	need	participle					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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