English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 49

This time the fairy baby was playing with a birdie; Kate heard one of the fairies say: “Three bites of that birdie would make the sick prince as well as ever he was.”

Who acts: fairy baby, Kate, time, Three bites, baby · What happens: play, hear, say, make, be, bite · To what, where: time, one, sick prince, birdie · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy baby, Kate, time, Three bites), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 baby	det
4	fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 baby	amod
5	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 playing	aux
7	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 time	acl:relcl
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 birdie	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 birdie	det
10	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 playing	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
12	Kate	Kate	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 time	acl:relcl
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 heard	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 fairies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fairies	det
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
18	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 bites	punct
21	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 bites	nummod
22	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 make	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 birdie	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 birdie	det
25	birdie	birdie	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bites	nmod
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 say	ccomp
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 prince	det
29	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 prince	amod
30	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obj
31	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	36 was	cc
32	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 as	fixed
33	as	as	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
34	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 was	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 was	nsubj
36	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 make	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	the fairy baby	this time not said here		with a birdie	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent time=Theme with birdie=Co-Agent
2	hear	past	Kate	one of the fairies			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	present	this time				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make in a quote	would	Three bites of that birdie	the sick prince			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prince=Product
5	be in a quote	past	baby		ever		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	bite in a quote			that birdie			nom bite «state 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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