Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 86
"Well, be careful," said the Pigeon, and flew away.
Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: be, say, fly away · 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 careful | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 careful | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 careful | cop |
| 5 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 careful | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 careful | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Pigeon | det |
| 10 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 flew | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 flew | cc |
| 13 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 flew | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Pigeon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fly away | past | the Pigeon not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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