The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 79
‘Yes; I see a flock of crows coming flying after us,’ said the man.
Who acts: I, crows, man · What happens: see, come, fly, say · To what, where: flock · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, crows, man), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 see | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flock | det |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 crows | case |
| 9 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 flock | nmod |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 crows | acl |
| 11 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 coming | xcomp |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 us | case |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 flying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | a flock of crows | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | crows not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | crows not said here | after us | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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