Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 38

So the Rohu opened his jaws and the crow flew down, but he came up again very quickly. "

Who acts: Rohu, crow · What happens: open, fly down, come up · To what, where: jaws

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 (Rohu, 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 opened	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rohu	det
3	Rohu	Rohu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 opened	nsubj
4	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 jaws	nmod:poss
6	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 opened	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flew	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crow	det
9	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flew	nsubj
10	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 flew	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 opened	conj
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	again	again	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 quickly	advmod
19	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	the Rohu	crow's jaws			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme
2	fly down	past	the crow				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come up	past	crow		again	quickly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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