Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 94
By-and-by the Pigeon came in, and saw the Crow lying there, making a great noise.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: come in, see, lie, make · To what, where: Crow, great noise
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), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 7 Pigeon | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 By | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Pigeon | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pigeon | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Pigeon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Pigeon | det |
| 7 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Crow | det |
| 14 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obj |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Crow | acl |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lying | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 making | punct |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 noise | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 noise | amod |
| 21 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | by the Pigeon | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by pigeon=Location | |||||
| 2 | see | past | the Crow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the Crow not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | a great noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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