Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 35
By degrees he got tired and went slower, and a crow came and perched on his back, and said "Caw, caw." "
Who acts: Majnun, crow · What happens: get, go, come, perch, say · To what, where: back, Caw · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 degrees | case |
| 2 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 8 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 went | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 came | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crow | det |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 perched | cc |
| 15 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 back | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 perched | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Caw | punct |
| 23 | Caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 caw | punct |
| 25 | caw | caw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Caw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 Caw | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Caw | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Caw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Majnun | by degrees; tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Majnun not said here | slow property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a crow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | perch | participle | a crow not said here | Majnun's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on back=Location | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Majnun not said here | Caw and caw | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caw=Topic |
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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