The Yellow Fairy Book, The Nightingale, sentence 64
And she pointed to a little dark-grey bird up in the branches.
Who acts: girl · What happens: point up · To what, where: little grey bird, branches
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nightingale. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 pointed | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pointed | nsubj |
| 3 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grey | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 dark | punct |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pointed | obl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 pointed | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 branches | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 branches | det |
| 14 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pointed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point up | past | girl | a little grey bird | the branches | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient |
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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