The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 39

Caw! caw! a crow flew up from the ditch.

Who acts: Caw caw · What happens: fly up · To what, where: ditch

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caw caw), 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	Caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caw	compound
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Caw	punct
3	caw	caw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 caw	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crow	det
6	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	nsubj
7	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 flew	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 ditch	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ditch	det
11	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flew	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	Caw caw			the ditch			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ditch=Trajectory

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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