The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 34
‘The Golden Blackbird is in a little cabin near by,’ said the little hare, ‘and you will easily find it.
Who acts: Golden Blackbird, little cabin, you · What happens: be, say, find · To what, where: little cabin, little hare, cabin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Golden Blackbird, little cabin, you), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cabin | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Blackbird | det |
| 3 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Blackbird | amod |
| 4 | Blackbird | Blackbird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cabin | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cabin | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cabin | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cabin | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cabin | amod |
| 9 | cabin | cabin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 9 cabin | advmod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 near | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cabin | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 cabin | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hare | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hare | amod |
| 17 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hare | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 find | cc |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 find | aux |
| 23 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 24 find | advmod |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Golden Blackbird | a little cabin | near property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a little cabin | the little hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hare=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | future | you | cabin | easily property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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