The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 43

They hopped about from one tree to another looking for food, all day long until the evening, when they went back to their old perch to sleep.

Who acts: birds, another · What happens: hop about, look, go back, sleep · To what, where: one tree, food

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, another), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hopped	nsubj
2	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 hopped	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tree	nummod
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hopped	obl
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
8	another	another	PRON	PronType=Ind	9 looking	nsubj
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hopped	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 food	case
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 food	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 day	advmod
16	until	until	ADP	_	18 evening	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 evening	det
18	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looking	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 went	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 went	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hopped	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	27 perch	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 perch	nmod:poss
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 perch	amod
27	perch	perch	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sleep	mark
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 went	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hop about	past	birds = bird		one tree		about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
2	look	gerund	another	food		evening		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme food=Attribute
3	go back	past	birds = bird				to birds's old perch result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to perch=Result
4	sleep	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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