The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 65
Here and there he noticed a bird sitting on a branch, with head erect and swelling throat, but his ear caught nothing.
Who acts: fellow, bird, ear · What happens: notice, sit, swell, catch · To what, where: bird, branch, throat, nothing
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, bird, ear), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 noticed | parataxis |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 there | cc |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Here | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obj |
| 8 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bird | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 branch | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 branch | det |
| 11 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 head | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sitting | obl |
| 15 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 head | amod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swelling | cc |
| 17 | swelling | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sitting | conj |
| 18 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swelling | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 caught | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 caught | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ear | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 caught | nsubj |
| 23 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 noticed | conj |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 caught | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | fellow | a bird | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | a bird not said here | a branch | with head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location | |||
| 3 | swell | gerund | a bird not said here | throat | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient throat=Extent | ||||
| 4 | catch | past | fellow's ear | nothing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=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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