The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 39

It was a pie made of six birds, cooked to perfection, and yet they were all alive, and singing and talking, and they answered questions and told fortunes in the most amusing way.

Who acts: chance, things · What happens: be, make, cook, sing, talk, answer · To what, where: pie, six birds, questions, fortunes, amusing way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chance, things), 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	4 pie	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pie	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 pie	det
4	pie	pie	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pie	acl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 birds	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 birds	nummod
8	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 made	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cooked	punct
10	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 birds	acl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 perfection	case
12	perfection	perfection	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cooked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 alive	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 alive	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	19 alive	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 alive	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 alive	cop
18	all	all	ADV	_	19 alive	advmod
19	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 pie	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 singing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 singing	cc
22	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 alive	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 talking	cc
24	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 singing	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 answered	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 answered	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 singing	parataxis
29	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 answered	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 told	cc
31	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 answered	conj
32	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 told	iobj
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 way	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 way	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 amusing	advmod
36	amusing	amusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 way	amod
37	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 told	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 pie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	chance	a pie					tree rules
2	make	participle		a pie not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	cook	participle		six birds not said here				to perfection result	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to perfection=Result
4	is	past	things = thing				yet	alive, all property	tree rules
5	sing speech: express	gerund	things = thing not said here						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	talk	gerund	things = thing not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	answer speech: assert	past	things = thing	questions					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality
8	tell speech: assert	past	things = thing not said here		fortunes	the amusing way			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fortune=Recipient

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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