Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 255

The silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up.

Who acts: silver pigeon · What happens: spring, eat up · To what, where: silver pigeon, that

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 (silver 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pigeon	det
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pigeon	compound
3	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	nsubj
4	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pigeon	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 ate	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 ate	compound:prt
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	participle		the silver pigeon not said here					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat up	past	the silver pigeon	that					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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: «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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