Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 95
But he threw it into a fork of the tree, struck it with his beak, and killed it; and then ate its flesh, and threw its bones away at the foot of the tree.
Who acts: Crane · What happens: throw, strike, kill, eat · To what, where: tree, fork, flesh, foot
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crane), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 threw | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 fork | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fork | det |
| 7 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fork | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 struck | punct |
| 12 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 struck | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 beak | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 beak | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 struck | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 killed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 killed | cc |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 struck | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 killed | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ate | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ate | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 ate | advmod |
| 24 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ate | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 threw | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 threw | cc |
| 29 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ate | conj |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 bones | nmod:poss |
| 31 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 away | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 threw | advmod |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 foot | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 foot | det |
| 35 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 threw | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 tree | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 tree | det |
| 38 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 foot | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Crane | tree | into a fork of the tree result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fork=Result | |||
| 2 | strike | past | Crane not said here | tree | with Crane's beak | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with beak=Instrument | |||
| 3 | kill | past | Crane not said here | tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | Crane not said here | tree's flesh | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | |||
| 5 | throw | past | Crane not said here | the foot of the tree | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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