The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 15
And when the tree was stripped bare, the bird went as it had come.
Who acts: bird · What happens: strip, go, come · To what, where: tree
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stripped | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 stripped | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stripped | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stripped | aux:pass |
| 6 | stripped | strip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stripped | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stripped | conj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 come | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 went | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strip | past · passive | the tree | bare property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the bird | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | bird | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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