Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 21

Not long after this a nadhar, a bird whose look can break the bones of a fish, came and hovered over the lamb, and eventually pounced down on it to carry it away.

Who acts: look, bones · What happens: break, come, hover, pounce down, carry away · To what, where: bones, lamb

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (look, bones), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 long	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 nadhar	det
6	nadhar	nadhar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 long	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bird	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nadhar	appos
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 look	nmod:poss
11	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 break	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 break	aux
13	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 bird	acl:relcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bones	det
15	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 break	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 fish	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 fish	det
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fish	punct
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bones	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hovered	cc
22	hovered	hover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 lamb	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lamb	det
25	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hovered	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 pounced	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pounced	cc
28	eventually	eventually	ADV	_	29 pounced	advmod
29	pounced	pounce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 came	conj
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 pounced	compound:prt
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 pounced	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 carry	mark
34	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 pounced	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carry	obj
36	away	away	ADV	_	34 carry	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 long	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	can	look	the bones		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Patient
2	come	past	the bones not said here		of a fish	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of fish=Initial_Location
3	hover	past	the bones not said here		over the lamb	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over lamb=Location
4	pounce down	participle	the bones not said here		on lamb; eventually property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
5	carry away	to-infinitive	the bones not said here	lamb	away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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