The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 125

So he blew his whistle, and when he blew it then all the birds of the world began to gather.

Who acts: Irishman, birds · What happens: blow, begin, gather, whistle · To what, where: whistle

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman, birds), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 blew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 whistle	nmod:poss
5	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 blew	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blew	cc
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 blew	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blew	nsubj
10	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 blew	obj
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 began	advmod
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 birds	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 birds	det
15	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 began	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 world	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 birds	nmod
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blew	advcl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 gather	mark
21	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	blow	past	Irishman	Irishman's whistle		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent whistle=Patient
2	blow	past	Irishman	whistle		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	begin	past	all birds of the world		then	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	gather	to-infinitive	all birds of the world not said here			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	whistle		Irishman			nom whistle «event intransitive»: poss=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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