The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 40
The moment that Golden Bird had touched the bars of the splendid cage he awoke, and began to whistle, so that all the servants of the castle ran to see what was the matter, saying that he was a thief and must be put in prison.
Who acts: Golden Bird, youth, moment, servants · What happens: touch, awake, begin, whistle, run, see · To what, where: bars, splendid cage, matter, thief, prison · 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 Bird, youth, moment, servants), 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 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 began | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 touched | mark |
| 4 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Bird | amod |
| 5 | Bird | Bird | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 touched | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 touched | aux |
| 7 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 moment | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bars | det |
| 9 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 touched | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cage | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cage | det |
| 12 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cage | amod |
| 13 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bars | nmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awoke | nsubj |
| 15 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cage | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 whistle | mark |
| 20 | whistle | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 22 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 ran | mark |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 ran | mark |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 servants | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 servants | det |
| 26 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 ran | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 castle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 castle | det |
| 29 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 servants | nmod |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 whistle | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 see | mark |
| 32 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 ran | xcomp |
| 33 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 36 matter | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 matter | cop |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 matter | det |
| 36 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 see | ccomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 saying | punct |
| 38 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 see | advcl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 thief | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 thief | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 thief | cop |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 thief | det |
| 43 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 saying | ccomp |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 put | cc |
| 45 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 put | aux |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 put | aux:pass |
| 47 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 thief | conj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 prison | case |
| 49 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 put | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · perfect | Golden Bird | the bars of the splendid cage | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bar=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | awake | past | youth | the splendid cage not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | whistle | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | past | all servants of the castle | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | all servants of the castle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | gerund | all servants of the castle not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | is a | past | youth | a thief | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | put | must · passive | youth not said here | prison | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in prison=Destination |
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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