The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 81
Soon after a crow flew past, and began to peck at the dead ox.
Who acts: crow · What happens: fly, begin, peck
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 flew | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 flew | mark |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crow | det |
| 4 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | past | past | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 peck | mark |
| 11 | peck | peck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 began | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 ox | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ox | det |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ox | amod |
| 15 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 peck | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | a crow | past, soon property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | a crow not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | peck | to-infinitive | a crow not said here | at the dead ox | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at ox=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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