The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 11
And close upon them followed three pigeons.
Who acts: you, crows · What happens: close, follow · To what, where: three pigeons
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 close | cc |
| 2 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 5 followed | mark |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 followed | nsubj |
| 5 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 close | advcl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pigeons | nummod |
| 7 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 followed | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | follow | past | crows = crow | three pigeons | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=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: «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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