The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 155

The wild crow who was now married drove with her for the first three miles; the other crow could not come because she had a bad headache.

Who acts: wild crow, other crow, Gerda · What happens: marry, drive, not come, have · To what, where: wild crow, bad headache

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild crow, other crow, Gerda), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crow	amod
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drove	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 married	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 married	aux:pass
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 married	advmod
7	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 crow	acl:relcl
8	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 her	case
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drove	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 miles	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 miles	det
13	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 miles	amod
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 miles	nummod
15	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 drove	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crow	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crow	amod
19	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 come	advmod
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 drove	parataxis
23	because	because	SCONJ	_	25 had	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 had	nsubj
25	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 come	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 headache	det
27	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 headache	amod
28	headache	headache	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 had	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		the wild crow	now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	drive	past	the wild crow			with Gerda; for the first three miles	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	not come	could	the other crow				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	past	Gerda	a bad headache			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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