The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 4, sentence 45
At this moment Turritella appeared, and at the first sight of the savoury pie, with the pretty little birds all singing and chattering, she cried:--
Who acts: Turritella, pretty little birds · What happens: appear, sing, chatter, cry, sight · To what, where: first sight, savoury pie
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 (Turritella, pretty little birds), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 4 | Turritella | Turritella | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sight | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sight | cc |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sight | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 sight | amod |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pie | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pie | det |
| 14 | savoury | savoury | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pie | amod |
| 15 | pie | pie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 birds | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 birds | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 birds | det |
| 19 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 birds | amod |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 birds | amod |
| 21 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 appeared | obl |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 singing | advmod |
| 23 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 birds | acl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 chattering | cc |
| 25 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 singing | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cried | nsubj |
| 28 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appeared | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 cried | punct |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 5 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | Turritella | the first sight of the savoury pie | moment | with the pretty little birds | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | the pretty little birds not said here | all property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | chatter | gerund | the pretty little birds not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | Turritella | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | sight | the savoury pie | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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