Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Vampire and St Michael, sentence 191

Then the crab called together all her young crabs, and they collected all the coral and brought it ashore, and gave it to Tremsin.

Who acts: crab · What happens: call together, collect, bring, give · To what, where: young crabs, coral, Tremsin

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Vampire and St Michael. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 collected	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crab	det
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 collected	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crab	acl
5	together	together	ADV	_	4 called	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 crabs	det:predet
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crabs	nmod:poss
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crabs	amod
9	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 collected	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 collected	cc
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 collected	nsubj
13	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 coral	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coral	det
16	coral	coral	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 collected	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 brought	cc
18	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 collected	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 brought	obj
20	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	18 brought	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 gave	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 gave	cc
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 collected	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 Tremsin	case
26	Tremsin	Tremsin	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	call together speech: assert	participle	the crab not said here	NASTASIA's young crabs			together property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	collect	past	the crab	all coral		then		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coral=Theme
3	bring	past	the crab not said here	coral			ashore property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	give	past	the crab not said here	coral	Tremsin			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to tremsin=Recipient

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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