Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 66

The Crow pretended to feed along with the Pigeon, but ever and anon he would turn back, peck to bits some heap of cow-dung, and eat a fat worm.

Who acts: Crow, anon · What happens: pretend, feed, turn back, peck, eat · To what, where: bits, fat worm

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 (Crow, anon), 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 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pretended	nsubj
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feed	mark
5	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretended	xcomp
6	along	along	ADP	_	9 Pigeon	case
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 Pigeon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Pigeon	det
9	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 turn	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 turn	cc
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 anon	advmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 anon	cc
14	anon	anon	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 turn	nsubj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 turn	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 turn	aux
17	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pretended	conj
18	back	back	ADV	_	17 turn	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 peck	punct
20	peck	peck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 turn	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 bits	case
22	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 peck	obj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 heap	det
24	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bits	nmod:unmarked
25	of	of	ADP	_	28 dung	case
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dung	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 cow	punct
28	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heap	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 eat	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 eat	cc
31	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pretended	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 worm	det
33	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 worm	amod
34	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eat	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	the Crow			tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive	the Crow not said here		along the Pigeon	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	turn back	would	anon			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	peck	infinitive	anon not said here	bits some heap of cow dung		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
5	eat	infinitive		a fat worm		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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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