Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 88
Now's my time!" thought Mr. Crow, and alighted on a dish containing some dainty food.
Who acts: dish · What happens: be, think, alight, contain · To what, where: time, Mr. Crow, dish, dainty 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 (dish), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 time | advmod |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 time | nmod:poss |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obl |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 7 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Crow | compound |
| 9 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 thought | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 alighted | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 alighted | cc |
| 12 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 thought | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 dish | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dish | det |
| 15 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 alighted | obl |
| 16 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 dish | acl |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 food | det |
| 18 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 food | compound |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 containing | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Mr. Crow | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crow=Theme | |||||
| 3 | alight in a quote | participle | a dish | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | contain in a quote | gerund | a dish not said here | some dainty food | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=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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