English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 42

The bird took it in one foot, the shoes in the other, and, after having repeated the song, flew away to where three millers were picking a millstone.

Who acts: bird, three millers · What happens: take, repeat, fly away, pick · To what, where: jeweller, one foot, song, millstone

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, three millers), 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 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 foot	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 foot	nummod
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 shoes	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shoes	det
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 foot	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 other	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 other	det
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shoes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 repeated	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 repeated	cc
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 and	punct
17	after	after	SCONJ	_	18 having	mark
18	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 repeated	aux
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 song	det
21	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 repeated	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
24	away	away	ADV	_	23 flew	advmod
25	to	to	SCONJ	_	30 picking	mark
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	30 picking	advmod
27	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 millers	nummod
28	millers	miller	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 picking	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 picking	aux
30	picking	pick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 flew	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 millstone	det
32	millstone	millstone	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 picking	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the bird	jeweller	one foot and the shoes in the other		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in foot=Location
2	repeat	gerund · perfect	the bird not said here	the song			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
3	fly away	past	the bird not said here			away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pick	past · progressive	three millers	a millstone			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millstone=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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