The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 60
It first scraped its bill with its claw, stroked down its feathers, and then advanced towards the first stork.
Who acts: Meantime · What happens: scrape, stroke down, advance, bill · To what, where: bill, feathers
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Meantime), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 scraped | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 scraped | advmod |
| 3 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bill | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scraped | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 claw | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 claw | nmod:poss |
| 8 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scraped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stroked | punct |
| 10 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 scraped | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 stroked | compound:prt |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stroked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 advanced | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 advanced | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 advanced | advmod |
| 17 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 scraped | conj |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 21 stork | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stork | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 stork | amod |
| 21 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 advanced | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 scraped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scrape | past | Meantime | Meantime's bill | with Meantime's claw; first property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bill=Patient with claw=Instrument | |||
| 2 | stroke down | participle | Meantime not said here | Meantime's feathers | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | advance | past | Meantime not said here | then | towards the first stork | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards stork=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | bill | Meantime | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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