Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 253

When she was going to drink what is in it, a flame went up out of the glass, and a golden pigeon and a silver pigeon sprang out of it.

Who acts: woman, flame, golden pigeon · What happens: go, drink, be, go up, spring out · To what, where: sight, glass

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, flame, golden pigeon), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 going	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 drink	mark
6	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 it	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 it	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drink	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 flame	det
13	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 went	compound:prt
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 glass	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 glass	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 glass	det
19	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sprang	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sprang	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pigeon	det
23	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pigeon	amod
24	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sprang	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pigeon	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 pigeon	det
27	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pigeon	compound
28	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pigeon	conj
29	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
30	out	out	ADP	_	32 it	case
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sprang	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	woman			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drink	to-infinitive	woman not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			sight	tree rules
4	go up	past	a flame		the glass	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	spring out	past	a golden pigeon and a silver pigeon	sight		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location it=Theme

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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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