The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 29
‘Yes, it is a real bird,’ said those who had brought it.
Who acts: least, real bird · What happens: be, say, bring · To what, where: real bird, those, least · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least, real 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 bird | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bird | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bird | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bird | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bird | amod |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 bird | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brought | aux |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 brought | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | least | a real bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a real bird | those | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | least | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination it=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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