The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 92

The crow, who wanted her supper very badly, hopped quickly towards him, and was stooping forward to peck at his tongue when the fox gave a snap, and caught him by the wing.

Who acts: crow, fox · What happens: want, hop, stoop, peck, give, catch · To what, where: supper, snap, Michael

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 (crow, fox), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hopped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crow	acl:relcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 supper	nmod:poss
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 badly	advmod
9	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wanted	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crow	punct
11	hopped	hop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 hopped	advmod
13	towards	towards	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hopped	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 stooping	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 stooping	cc
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 stooping	aux
18	stooping	stoop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hopped	advcl
19	forward	forward	ADV	_	18 stooping	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 peck	mark
21	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stooping	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 tongue	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 tongue	nmod:poss
24	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 peck	obl
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 gave	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 fox	det
27	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	nsubj
28	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 peck	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 snap	det
30	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 gave	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 caught	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 caught	cc
33	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hopped	conj
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 caught	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	37 wing	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wing	det
37	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 caught	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	the crow	spite's supper	badly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme
2	hop	past	the crow		towards Michael; quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination
3	stoop	past · progressive	the crow not said here		forward property	tree rules
4	peck	to-infinitive	the crow not said here		at Michael's tongue	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at tongue=Patient
5	give	past	the fox	a snap		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=Theme
6	catch	past	the crow not said here	Michael	by the wing	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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