Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, Oh: the Tsar of the Forest, sentence 83

Now all the doves there were pecking at the wheat, all but one that sat alone beneath the pear-tree, sticking out its breast and pruning its feathers. "

Who acts: doves · What happens: peck, sit, stick out, prune · To what, where: pear tree, breast, feathers

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Oh: the Tsar of the Forest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doves), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 pecking	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 doves	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 doves	det
4	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pecking	nsubj
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 doves	expl
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 pecking	aux
7	pecking	peck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 wheat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wheat	det
10	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pecking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 one	nsubj
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 one	cc
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 pecking	parataxis
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 sat	advmod
18	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	22 tree	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	pear	pear	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tree	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 pear	punct
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sticking	punct
24	sticking	stick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pecking	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 sticking	compound:prt
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 breast	nmod:poss
27	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sticking	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pruning	cc
29	pruning	prune	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 pecking	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 feathers	nmod:poss
31	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 pruning	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 pecking	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 pecking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	peck	past · progressive	all doves			now	at the wheat	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wheat=Patient
2	sit	past			the pear tree		alone property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location
3	stick out	gerund	all doves not said here	tree's breast				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breast=Theme
4	prune	gerund	all doves not said here	breast's feathers				vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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