The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 162
‘What has a bird, in spite of all his singing, in the winter-time?
Who acts: man · What happens: have, spite, sing · To what, where: bird, spite, singing
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bird | det |
| 5 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 spite | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 spite | case |
| 8 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 singing | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 singing | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 singing | nmod:poss |
| 12 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spite | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 time | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 time | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 winter | punct |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a bird | spite of man's singing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | ||||
| 2 | spite | man's singing | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | sing | man | nom singing «act transitive»: 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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