The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 96
And the ogre chased away the bird, not knowing that it was Motikatika.
Who acts: bird · What happens: chase away, not know, be · To what, where: Motikatika
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | _ | 7 bird | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ogre | det |
| 3 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bird | nsubj |
| 4 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bird | amod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 chased | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knowing | punct |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 knowing | advmod |
| 10 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 bird | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Motikatika | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Motikatika | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 Motikatika | cop |
| 14 | Motikatika | Motikatika | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 knowing | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bird | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase away | participle | away property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | bird | Motikatika | tree rules |
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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