Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 104
Then the Pigeon flew away, saying: "I can't live with this creature any longer."
Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: fly away, say, not live · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pigeon), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pigeon | det |
| 3 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saying | punct |
| 7 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 flew | advcl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 live | nsubj |
| 11 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 live | aux |
| 12 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 live | advmod |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 saying | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 creature | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 creature | det |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 17 | any | any | ADV | _ | 18 longer | advmod |
| 18 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 live | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the Pigeon | then | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Pigeon not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not live in a quote | can | the Pigeon = pigeon | with this creature; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with creature=Location |
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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