The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 8

In a moment the bird swooped down beside him and asked: ‘What do you wish me to do?’

Who acts: bird, you · What happens: swoop down, ask, wish, do · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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, you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swooped	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bird	det
5	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swooped	nsubj
6	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 swooped	compound:prt
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swooped	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swooped	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 wish	obj
15	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 wish	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
17	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 asked	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wish	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 do	mark
20	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wish	xcomp
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	swoop down	past	the bird		moment	beside Prince	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the bird not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	wish	present · do-support	you	me			tree rules
4	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here				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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