The Green Fairy Book, The Half-chick, sentence 13
They were good, obedient chickens, and when the old hen chicked after them, they chirped and ran back to her side.
Who acts: sisters, old hen · What happens: be, chick, chirp, run back
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Half-chick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sisters, old hen), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 good | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | cop |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 chickens | punct |
| 5 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 chickens | amod |
| 6 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 good | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 chicked | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 chicked | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 chicked | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hen | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hen | amod |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chicked | nsubj |
| 13 | chicked | chick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 good | conj |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 chicked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chirped | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 chirped | nsubj |
| 18 | chirped | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 good | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chirped | conj |
| 21 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 ran | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 side | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 side | nmod:poss |
| 24 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | sisters = sister | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | chick | participle | the old hen | after sisters = sister | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | chirp | past | sisters = sister | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | run back | past | sisters = sister not said here | to hen's side result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
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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