The Yellow Fairy Book, The Hazel-nut Child (29), sentence 37

The storks were fast asleep, and he climbed on to the back of the father-stork and bound a silk cord round the joint of one of its wings, then he crept among its soft downy feathers and fell asleep.

Who acts: storks, man · What happens: be, climb, bind, creep, fall · To what, where: back, silk cord, soft downy feathers

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Hazel-nut Child (29). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storks, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 storks	det
2	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asleep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	cop
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 asleep	advmod
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 climbed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 climbed	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 climbed	nsubj
9	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
10	on	on	ADV	_	9 climbed	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 back	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 back	det
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 climbed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 stork	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stork	det
16	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stork	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 father	punct
18	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 back	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 bound	cc
20	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 climbed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 cord	det
22	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cord	compound
23	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bound	obj
24	round	round	ADP	_	26 joint	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 joint	det
26	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bound	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 one	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 joint	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 wings	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wings	nmod:poss
31	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 one	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 crept	punct
33	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 crept	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 crept	nsubj
35	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 asleep	parataxis
36	among	among	ADP	_	40 feathers	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 feathers	nmod:poss
38	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 feathers	amod
39	downy	downy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 feathers	amod
40	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 crept	obl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fell	cc
42	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 crept	conj
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fell	xcomp
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 asleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the storks				asleep, fast property	tree rules
2	climb	past	man		the back of the father stork			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to back=Destination
3	bind	past	man not said here	a silk cord			round the joint of one of joint's wings	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cord=Patient
4	creep	past	man		joint's soft downy feathers	then		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among feather=Trajectory
5	fall	past	man not said here				asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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