Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 37

The young Raja shot at some of them, and at once they all flew away up to the sky.

Who acts: young Raja, parrots · What happens: shoot, fly away · To what, where: some

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Raja, parrots), 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	3 Raja	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Raja	amod
3	Raja	Raja	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 shot	nsubj
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 some	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 shot	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 some	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flew	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flew	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	15 flew	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 flew	nsubj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 they	det
15	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shot	conj
16	away	away	ADV	_	15 flew	advmod
17	up	up	ADP	_	20 sky	case
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 sky	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sky	det
20	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flew	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	the young Raja			some			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at some=Destination
2	fly away	past	parrots = parrot					up the sky; away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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