Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 91

Ah! he caught the Crow, and plucked all the feathers out of his head, all but one tuft; he powdered ginger and cummin, mixed it up with butter-milk, and rubbed it well all over the bird's body.

Who acts: chum · What happens: catch, pluck, powder, mix up, rub · To what, where: Crow, feathers, head, ginger, cummin, body

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 (chum), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 caught	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Crow	det
6	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 plucked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 plucked	cc
9	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 feathers	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feathers	det
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 plucked	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 head	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 head	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plucked	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 all	punct
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 head	nmod
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 tuft	cc
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 tuft	nummod
21	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 all	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 powdered	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 powdered	nsubj
24	powdered	powder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
25	ginger	ginger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 powdered	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cummin	cc
27	cummin	cummin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ginger	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 mixed	punct
29	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 powdered	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 mixed	obj
31	up	up	ADP	_	29 mixed	compound:prt
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 milk	case
33	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 milk	compound
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 butter	punct
35	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mixed	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 rubbed	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rubbed	cc
38	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 powdered	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 rubbed	obj
40	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	41 all	advmod
41	all	all	ADV	_	46 body	advmod
42	over	over	ADP	_	46 body	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 bird	det
44	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 body	nmod:poss
45	's	's	PART	_	44 bird	case
46	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rubbed	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	past	chum	the Crow			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Theme
2	pluck	past	chum not said here	all feathers	chum's head all		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme out head=Source
3	powder	past	chum	ginger and cummin			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ginger=Patient
4	mix up	past	chum not said here	cummin		with butter milk	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient with milk=Co-Patient
5	rub	past	chum not said here	cummin	the bird's body		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over body=Destination

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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