The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 155

In the middle of the path lay a dead swallow, his pretty wings pressed close to his sides, his claws and head drawn under his feathers; the poor bird had evidently died of cold.

Who acts: poor bird · What happens: lie, press, draw, die · To what, where: dead swallow, middle, pretty wings, head, feathers

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 (poor 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 middle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 middle	det
3	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 path	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 middle	nmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 swallow	det
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 swallow	amod
10	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wings	punct
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
13	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wings	amod
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swallow	appos
15	pressed	press	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 wings	acl
16	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 pressed	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 sides	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 sides	nmod:poss
19	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 close	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 claws	punct
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 claws	nmod:poss
22	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 swallow	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 head	cc
24	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 swallow	conj
25	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 head	acl
26	under	under	ADP	_	28 feathers	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feathers	nmod:poss
28	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 drawn	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bird	det
31	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 bird	amod
32	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 died	aux
34	evidently	evidently	ADV	_	35 died	advmod
35	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 lay	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 cold	case
37	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 died	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a dead swallow and mole's claws and head	the middle of the path		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swallow=Theme
2	press	participle		mole's pretty wings not said here		close property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	draw	participle		head not said here	mole's feathers		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	die	past · perfect	the poor bird			of cold; evidently property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of cold=Causer

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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