The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 12

So he walked on about a hundred yards, and then he heard above him in the branches such a screaming and chirping that he looked up, and there he saw a heap of birds tearing a cloth with their beaks and feet, shrieking, tugging, and fighting, as if each wanted it for himself.

Who acts: Hunter, birds, each · What happens: walk, hear, scream, chirp, look up, see · To what, where: branches, heap, cloth

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, birds, each), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 walked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walked	nsubj
3	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 yards	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	7 hundred	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hundred	det
7	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 yards	nummod
8	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 heard	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 heard	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 heard	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	nsubj
13	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
14	above	above	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 heard	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 branches	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 branches	det
18	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 heard	obl
19	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 a	det:predet
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 branches	appos
21	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 a	acl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 chirping	cc
23	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 screaming	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 looked	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 looked	nsubj
26	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 chirping	advcl
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 looked	compound:prt
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 saw	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 saw	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 saw	expl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 saw	nsubj
32	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 walked	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 heap	det
34	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 saw	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 birds	case
36	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 heap	nmod
37	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 birds	acl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 cloth	det
39	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tearing	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 beaks	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 beaks	nmod:poss
42	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tearing	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 feet	cc
44	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 beaks	conj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 shrieking	punct
46	shrieking	shriek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	37 tearing	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 tugging	punct
48	tugging	tug	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 shrieking	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 fighting	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 fighting	cc
51	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 walked	advcl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 wanted	punct
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	56 wanted	mark
54	if	if	SCONJ	_	56 wanted	mark
55	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	56 wanted	nsubj
56	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 fighting	parataxis
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 wanted	obj
58	for	for	ADP	_	59 himself	case
59	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	56 wanted	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past	Hunter				on hundred yards	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on yard=Trajectory
2	hear	past	Hunter		the branches	then	above him = he	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	scream speech: express	gerund						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	chirp	gerund						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	look up	past	Hunter					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	see	past	Hunter	a heap of birds	there			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heap=Stimulus
7	tear	gerund	birds not said here	a cloth			with birds's beaks and feet	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent cloth=Patient with beak=Instrument
8	shriek	gerund	birds not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	tug	gerund	birds not said here					vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
10	fight	gerund	Hunter not said here					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	want a condition, not said to happen	past	each	cloth			for Hunter	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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