Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 57
A greedy Crow, flying near, saw all sorts of delicate food lying about in the kitchen, and fell a-hungering after it. "
Who acts: greedy Crow, delicate food · What happens: fly, see, lie, fall, hunger, sort · To what, where: sorts, kitchen, delicate food
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 (greedy Crow, delicate food), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Crow | det |
| 2 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Crow | amod |
| 3 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 flying | punct |
| 5 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Crow | acl |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 flying | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Crow | punct |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 sorts | det |
| 10 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 food | case |
| 12 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 food | amod |
| 13 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorts | nmod |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 food | acl |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 lying | advmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 kitchen | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kitchen | det |
| 18 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fell | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 hungering | det |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 a | punct |
| 24 | hungering | hunger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 fell | advcl |
| 25 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hungering | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | a greedy Crow not said here | near property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a greedy Crow | all sorts of delicate food | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | delicate food not said here | the kitchen | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location | |||
| 4 | fall | past | a greedy Crow not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hunger | gerund | a greedy Crow not said here | after kitchen | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | sort | delicate food | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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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