The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Pheasants, sentence 7

By this time the poor birds' heads were in a whirl.

Who acts: heads · What happens: be · To what, where: whirl

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Pheasants. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whirl	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heads	nmod:poss
7	'	's	PART	_	6 birds	case
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 whirl	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 whirl	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 whirl	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 whirl	det
12	whirl	whirl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 whirl	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the poor birds's heads			a whirl	time		tree rules

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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