The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 35
It lives in a little cage, with another cage beside it made all of gold.
Who acts: Blackbird · What happens: live, make · To what, where: little cage, all
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 (Blackbird), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lives | nsubj |
| 2 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 cage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cage | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cage | amod |
| 6 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lives | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cage | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cage | case |
| 9 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 cage | det |
| 10 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cage | conj |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 13 made | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cage | acl:relcl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 made | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 all | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Blackbird | a little cage and another cage | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cage=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Blackbird | all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material all=Product |
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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