Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 60
When the Pigeon went to search for food, behind him, following, following, came the Crow.
Who acts: Pigeon, Crow · What happens: go, search, follow, come
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, Crow), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Pigeon | det |
| 3 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 came | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 search | mark |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 him | advcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 search | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 him | punct |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 following | punct |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 following | punct |
| 15 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 following | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Crow | det |
| 19 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Pigeon | behind Crow | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind he=Location | ||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | the Pigeon not said here | for food | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | come | past | the Crow | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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