English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 35
A raven, which was flying over, picked him up, and flew with him over the sea, and there dropped him.
Who acts: raven · What happens: fly over, pick up, fly, drop · To what, where: Tom, sea
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 raven | det |
| 2 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flying | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 flying | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flying | aux |
| 6 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 raven | acl |
| 7 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 flying | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 raven | punct |
| 9 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 picked | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 picked | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flew | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 flew | cc |
| 14 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 picked | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 flew | obl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dropped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dropped | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 dropped | advmod |
| 23 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 picked | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 dropped | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly over | past · progressive | a raven | over property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | a raven | Tom | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fly | past | a raven not said here | the sea | with Tom | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over sea=Location | |||
| 4 | drop | past | a raven not said here | Tom | there | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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