The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 34

Well, he waited till the morning, and quite early the old woman appeared and took out a little pipe and blew in it, and in a moment all the crows in the world were flying about her.

Who acts: world, old woman, crows · What happens: wait, appear, take out, blow, fly · To what, where: little pipe, pipe

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, old woman, crows), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	till	till	ADP	_	7 morning	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 appeared	cc
10	quite	quite	ADV	_	11 early	advmod
11	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 appeared	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	nsubj
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 took	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 pipe	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pipe	amod
21	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 took	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blew	cc
23	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 waited	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 blew	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 flying	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 flying	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 moment	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 moment	det
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 flying	obl
31	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	33 crows	det:predet
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 crows	det
33	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 flying	nsubj
34	in	in	ADP	_	36 world	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 world	det
36	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 crows	nmod
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 flying	aux
38	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 waited	advcl
39	about	about	ADP	_	40 her	case
40	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 flying	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	world			morning		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	appear	past	the old woman				early property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take out	past	world not said here	a little pipe				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pipe=Theme
4	blow	past	world not said here		pipe			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
5	fly	past · progressive	all crows in the world			moment	about woman	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent about she=Location

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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