Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 99

But there was still a crab left behind there; and the crane thought he would eat him too, and called out:

Who acts: crane · What happens: leave behind, be, eat, call out · To what, where: crab · Speech: someone speaks here

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 was	cc
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 thought	cop
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 was	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crab	det
6	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 was	nsubj
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crab	acl
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 left	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 thought	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 crane	det
13	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 thought	nsubj
14	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	aux
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 thought	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 eat	obj
19	too	too	ADV	_	17 eat	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 called	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 called	cc
22	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 thought	ccomp
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 called	compound:prt
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave behind	participle		a crab not said here	there		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	be speech: other	past	the crane			think property	tree rules
3	eat	would	Crane	crab			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	call out speech: assert	participle					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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