Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 71
The moment the crows ate what was thrown to them they fell down dead.
Who acts: moment, crows · What happens: eat, throw, fall down · To what, where: 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 (moment, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 moment | det |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crows | det |
| 4 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | aux:pass |
| 8 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ate | parataxis |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thrown | obl |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thrown | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fell | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past | the moment | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | crows = crow | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to they=Destination | |||||
| 3 | fall down | past | crows = crow | dead, down property | vn occur-48.3 «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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