Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 37
"Very well," said the crow, "open your mouth wide, and I'll fly down and see."
Who acts: crow · What happens: say, open, fly down, see · To what, where: mouth · 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 (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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 open | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fly | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fly | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 fly | nsubj |
| 18 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 fly | aux |
| 19 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 open | conj |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 19 fly | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 fly | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the crow | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | open in a quote | infinitive | your mouth | wide property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly down in a quote | future | the crow = crow | down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | the crow = crow not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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