Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 70

He was astonished, and suspecting that there was poison in the pilaw, he took a little and threw it to some crows that were hopping about.

Who acts: prince, poison, crows · What happens: be, suspect, take, throw, hop about · To what, where: little, poison, crows

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, poison, crows), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 astonished	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	cop
3	astonished	astonished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 suspecting	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 suspecting	cc
6	suspecting	suspect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 astonished	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 was	mark
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 was	expl
9	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 suspecting	advcl
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 was	nsubj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 pilaw	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pilaw	det
13	pilaw	pilaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 poison	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 astonished	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 took	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 threw	cc
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 took	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 crows	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 crows	det
24	crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 threw	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 hopping	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hopping	aux
27	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 crows	acl:relcl
28	about	about	ADV	_	27 hopping	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 astonished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	prince				astonished property	tree rules
2	suspect	gerund	prince not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	be	past	poison in the pilaw			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	past	prince	a little				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Theme
5	throw	past	prince not said here	poison	some crows			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to crow=Destination
6	hop about	past · progressive	some crows				about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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