More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 132
Round and round flew the imps, picking up the bones. "
What happens: fly, pick up · To what, where: imps, bones
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Round | round | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 flew | cc |
| 3 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 imps | det |
| 6 | imps | imp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picking | punct |
| 8 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flew | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picking | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bones | det |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 picking | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the imps | round property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location imp=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | gerund | the bones | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Topic |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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