Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 9
The crab, on hearing the ill news "called to Parliament all the Fishes of the Lake," and before all are devoured destroys the Paragon, as in the Jataka, and returned to the remaining fishes, who "all with one consent gave hir many a thanke."
Who acts: crab, one consent · What happens: hear, call, devour, destroy, return, give · To what, where: ill news, Parliament, all, Paragon, hir · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, one consent), 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 crab | det |
| 2 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 destroys | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 hearing | mark |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 crab | appos |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 news | det |
| 7 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 news | amod |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hearing | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 news | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 news | acl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Parliament | case |
| 12 | Parliament | Parliament | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 Fishes | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fishes | det |
| 15 | Fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Lake | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lake | det |
| 18 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Fishes | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fishes | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 devoured | cc |
| 22 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 devoured | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 devoured | aux:pass |
| 25 | devoured | devour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 crab | conj |
| 26 | destroys | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Paragon | det |
| 28 | Paragon | Paragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 destroys | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Jataka | punct |
| 30 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 Jataka | case |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Jataka | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Jataka | det |
| 33 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 destroys | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 returned | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 returned | cc |
| 36 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 destroys | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 fishes | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 fishes | det |
| 39 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fishes | amod |
| 40 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 returned | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 all | punct |
| 42 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 all | nsubj |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 all | punct |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 fishes | conj |
| 45 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 48 gave | mark |
| 46 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 consent | nummod |
| 47 | consent | consent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gave | nsubj |
| 48 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 all | advcl |
| 49 | hir | hir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gave | obj |
| 50 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 thanke | amod |
| 51 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 thanke | det |
| 52 | thanke | thanke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gave | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 destroys | punct |
| 54 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 destroys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the ill news | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | call in a quote | participle | the ill news not said here | Parliament | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to parliament=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | devour | present · passive | all | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | destroy | present | the crab | the Paragon | as the Jataka | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragon=Patient | |||
| 5 | return | past | to the remaining fishes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fish=Result | |||||
| 6 | give in a quote | past | one consent | hir | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hir=Recipient thanke=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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