Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 41
Then the parrots all flew back to their Raja, chattering.
Who acts: parrots · What happens: fly back, chatter
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 parrots | det |
| 3 | parrots | parrot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Raja | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Raja | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Raja | raja | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chattering | punct |
| 11 | chattering | chatter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 flew | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly back | past | the parrots | then | to parrots's Raja result; all property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to raja=Result | |||
| 2 | chatter | gerund | the parrots not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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