The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 85
So the crow flew away, and she filled her beak at the well of healing, the well of strength, and the well of swiftness, and she flew back to the dead prince and dropped the water from her beak upon his lips, and he was healed, and could sit up and walk.
Who acts: crow, well · What happens: fly away, fill, fly back, drop, heal, sit up · To what, where: beak, well, water
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, well), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 filled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 filled | cc |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 filled | nsubj |
| 9 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 beak | nmod:poss |
| 11 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 well | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 well | det |
| 14 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 filled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 healing | case |
| 16 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 well | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 well | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 well | det |
| 19 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 well | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 strength | case |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 well | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flew | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flew | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flew | nsubj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 swiftness | case |
| 27 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 well | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 flew | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flew | cc |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 flew | nsubj |
| 31 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 flew | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 prince | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 prince | det |
| 35 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 prince | amod |
| 36 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flew | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 dropped | cc |
| 38 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 flew | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 water | det |
| 40 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dropped | obj |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 beak | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 beak | nmod:poss |
| 43 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 dropped | obl |
| 44 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 46 lips | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 lips | nmod:poss |
| 46 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 dropped | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 healed | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 healed | cc |
| 49 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 healed | nsubj |
| 50 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 healed | aux:pass |
| 51 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 flew | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 sit | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 sit | cc |
| 54 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 55 sit | aux |
| 55 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flew | conj |
| 56 | up | up | ADP | _ | 55 sit | compound:prt |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 walk | cc |
| 58 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 55 sit | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the crow | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | crow | crow's beak | the well of healing and the well of strength | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent beak=Patient | |||
| 3 | fly back | past | the well of swiftness | to the dead prince result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to prince=Result | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the well of swiftness not said here | the water | crow's beak | upon water's lips | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from beak=Destination upon lip=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | heal | past · passive | water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | sit up | could | the crow not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | walk | infinitive | the crow not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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