The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 91

Very soon he noticed, out of the corner of his eye, that the crow was flying towards him, and he kept stiller and stiffer than ever, with his tongue hanging out of his mouth.

Who acts: Michael, crow, tongue · What happens: notice, fly, keep, hang out · To what, where: corner, stiller, mouth

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Michael, crow, tongue), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 noticed	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 noticed	nsubj
4	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 corner	punct
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 corner	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 corner	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corner	det
9	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 noticed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 eye	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eye	nmod:poss
12	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 corner	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flying	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 flying	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 crow	det
16	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flying	aux
18	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 noticed	advcl
19	towards	towards	ADP	_	20 him	case
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flying	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kept	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 kept	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 kept	nsubj
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 noticed	conj
25	stiller	stiller	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stiffer	cc
27	stiffer	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 kept	conj
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 ever	case
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 stiffer	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tongue	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 tongue	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 tongue	nmod:poss
33	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obl
34	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 tongue	acl
35	out	out	ADP	_	38 mouth	case
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 mouth	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mouth	nmod:poss
38	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hanging	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Michael		the corner of Michael's eye	soon property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fly	past · progressive	the crow			towards Michael	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
3	keep	past	Michael	stiller		with Michael's tongue	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stiller=Theme
4	hang out	gerund	Michael's tongue not said here	Michael's mouth			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient

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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