The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 37
The youth found the Golden Blackbird standing on a wooden perch, but as stiff and rigid as if he was dead.
Who acts: youth, Golden Blackbird · What happens: find, stand, be · To what, where: Golden Blackbird, wooden perch
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 (youth, Golden 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Blackbird | det |
| 5 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Blackbird | amod |
| 6 | Blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 Blackbird | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 perch | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 perch | det |
| 10 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 perch | amod |
| 11 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 standing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stiff | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 stiff | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 stiff | case |
| 15 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 found | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 rigid | cc |
| 17 | rigid | rigid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stiff | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 dead | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 dead | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 dead | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 dead | cop |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stiff | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the youth | the Golden Blackbird | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blackbird=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the Golden Blackbird not said here | a wooden perch | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on perch=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | youth | dead property | tree rules |
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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