The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 26

In a moment all the birds in the world seemed flying round his head, and he crumbled some of his bread for them and watched them as they darted down to pick it up.

Who acts: birds, man · What happens: seem, fly, crumble, watch, dart down, pick up · To what, where: head, some, birds

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds, man), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 moment	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seemed	obl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 birds	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 birds	det
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seemed	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birds	nmod
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 seemed	xcomp
12	round	round	ADP	_	14 head	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flying	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 crumbled	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 crumbled	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crumbled	nsubj
18	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 seemed	parataxis
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 crumbled	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 bread	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 bread	nmod:poss
22	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 some	nmod
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 crumbled	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 watched	cc
26	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 crumbled	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 watched	obj
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 darted	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 darted	nsubj
30	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 watched	advcl
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 darted	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 pick	mark
33	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 darted	advcl
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 pick	obj
35	up	up	ADP	_	33 pick	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	all birds in the world			moment		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	fly	gerund	all birds in the world not said here		man's head			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round head=Trajectory
3	crumble	past	man	some			for birds = bird	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient
4	watch	past	man not said here	birds = bird				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	dart down	past	birds = bird				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	pick up	to-infinitive	birds = bird not said here	head				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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: «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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