The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 31
At midnight a gentle west wind shook the tree, and at the same moment a snow-white swan-like bird sank down gently on his breast.
Who acts: gentle west wind, white like bird · What happens: shake, sink down · To what, where: tree, breast
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (gentle west wind, white like 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 | _ | 2 midnight | case |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 4 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wind | amod |
| 5 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wind | compound |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | nsubj |
| 7 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shook | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sank | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sank | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 moment | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 moment | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 moment | amod |
| 15 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sank | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bird | det |
| 17 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 white | obl |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 snow | punct |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bird | amod |
| 20 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 like | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 swan | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bird | amod |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sank | nsubj |
| 24 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shook | advcl |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 sank | compound:prt |
| 26 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 24 sank | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 breast | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 breast | nmod:poss |
| 29 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sank | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | a gentle west wind | the tree | midnight | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | |||
| 2 | sink down | past | a white like bird | bird's breast | moment | gently property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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