The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5, sentence 28

But when he went to look at the body of the bird he found instead of the dove a round white egg lying on the ground.

Who acts: hare, round white egg · What happens: go, look, find, lie · To what, where: bird, ground

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, round white egg), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 went	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 went	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 look	mark
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 body	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 body	det
9	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 bird	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 body	nmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bird	acl:relcl
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	18 dove	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 dove	det
18	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 egg	det
20	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 egg	amod
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 egg	amod
22	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dove	appos
23	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 egg	acl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lying	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	hare				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	to-infinitive	hare not said here			at the body of the bird	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at body=Theme
3	find	past	hare	the bird not said here		instead the dove	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
4	lie	gerund	a round white egg not said here		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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