Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 34

With that the flight of crickets set to work, and in one night they separated the seed from the sand.

Who acts: maidens · What happens: set, work, separate · To what, where: crickets, seed

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 flight	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 flight	det
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flight	det
4	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 separated	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 crickets	case
6	crickets	cricket	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 flight	nmod
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 crickets	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 work	mark
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 set	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 separated	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 separated	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 night	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 night	nummod
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 separated	obl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 separated	nsubj
16	separated	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 seed	det
18	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 separated	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 sand	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sand	det
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 separated	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 separated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	set	participle		crickets not said here			tree rules
2	work	to-infinitive					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	separate	past	maidens = maiden	the seed	night	with that flight of crickets; from the sand	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient from sand=Co-Patient

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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