The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 76

The King was having his dinner, but he at once despatched one of his courtiers to find out what the huge, strange new bird could be that had come flying through the air.

Who acts: King, huge strange new bird · What happens: have, despatch, find out, be, come, fly · To what, where: dinner, one, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, huge strange new bird), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg640:2431): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 having	aux
4	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dinner	nmod:poss
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 having	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 despatched	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 despatched	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 despatched	nsubj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 once	case
11	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 despatched	obl
12	despatched	despatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 having	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 despatched	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 courtiers	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 courtiers	nmod:poss
16	courtiers	courtier	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 find	mark
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 despatched	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 find	compound:prt
20	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 find	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 bird	det
22	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bird	amod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 strange	punct
24	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bird	amod
25	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bird	amod
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 what	nsubj
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 what	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 what	cop
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 bird	acl:relcl
32	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 come	xcomp
33	through	through	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 flying	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 having	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past · progressive	the King	King's dinner		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient
2	despatch	past	King	one of King's courtiers		tree rules
3	find out	to-infinitive	King not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	could	the huge strange new bird			tree rules
5	come	past · perfect	the huge strange new bird			tree rules
6	fly	gerund	the huge strange new bird not said here		the air	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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