The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 152

But he begged them not to be afraid of the dead bird that lay in the passage: it was a real bird with beak and feathers, and must have died a little time ago, and now laid buried just where he had made his tunnel.

Who acts: neighbour, dead bird, passage · What happens: beg, not be, lie, be, die, bury · To what, where: songs, passage, real bird, tunnel

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbour, dead bird, passage), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 begged	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 begged	obj
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 afraid	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	8 afraid	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 afraid	cop
8	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 begged	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bird	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 afraid	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lay	nsubj
14	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bird	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 passage	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 passage	det
17	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lay	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 bird	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bird	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bird	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 bird	det
22	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 bird	amod
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obl
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 beak	case
25	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bird	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 feathers	cc
27	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 beak	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 died	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 died	cc
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 died	aux
31	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 died	aux
32	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 begged	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 time	det
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 time	amod
35	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 ago	obl:unmarked
36	ago	ago	ADV	_	32 died	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 buried	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 buried	cc
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 laid	advmod
40	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 buried	aux:pass
41	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 begged	conj
42	just	just	ADV	_	46 made	advmod
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	46 made	advmod
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 made	nsubj
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 made	aux
46	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	41 buried	advcl
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 tunnel	nmod:poss
48	tunnel	tunnel	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 made	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	neighbour		songs = song			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	not is	to-infinitive	neighbour not said here				of the dead bird; afraid property	tree rules
3	lie	past	the dead bird			the passage		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in passage=Location
4	is a	past	passage	a real bird			with beak and feathers	tree rules
5	die	must · perfect	neighbour not said here				ago property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	bury	participle · passive	neighbour not said here					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»
7	make	past · perfect	neighbour	neighbour's tunnel				vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tunnel=Product

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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