English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 32

Thus, a drop of honey falls on the ground; a fly goes after it, a bird snaps at the fly, a dog goes for the bird, another dog goes for the first, the masters of the two dogs--who happen to be kings--quarrel and go to war, whole provinces are devastated, and all for a drop of honey!

Who acts: drop, fly, bird, dog, two dogs, kings · What happens: fall, go, snap, happen, be, devastate · To what, where: ground, masters, kings, war, whole provinces

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (drop, fly, bird, dog), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	7 falls	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drop	det
4	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falls	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 honey	case
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drop	nmod
7	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 falls	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 goes	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fly	det
13	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 goes	nsubj
14	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 falls	conj
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 it	case
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 goes	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 snaps	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snaps	nsubj
20	snaps	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 goes	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 fly	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fly	det
23	fly	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 snaps	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 goes	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dog	det
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 goes	nsubj
27	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 snaps	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 bird	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 bird	det
30	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 goes	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 goes	punct
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 dog	det
33	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 goes	nsubj
34	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 goes	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 first	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 first	det
37	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 goes	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 masters	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 masters	det
40	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 goes	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 dogs	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 dogs	det
43	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 dogs	nummod
44	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 masters	nmod
45	--	--	PUNCT	_	47 happen	punct
46	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 happen	nsubj
47	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 dogs	acl:relcl
48	to	to	PART	_	50 kings	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 kings	cop
50	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 happen	obj
51	--	--	PUNCT	_	52 quarrel	punct
52	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 kings	conj
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 go	cc
54	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 quarrel	conj
55	to	to	ADP	_	56 war	case
56	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 go	obl
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 devastated	punct
58	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 provinces	amod
59	provinces	province	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 devastated	nsubj:pass
60	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	61 devastated	aux:pass
61	devastated	devastate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 kings	acl:relcl
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 all	punct
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 all	cc
64	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 falls	conj
65	for	for	ADP	_	67 drop	case
66	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 drop	det
67	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	64 all	nmod
68	of	of	ADP	_	69 honey	case
69	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 drop	nmod
70	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 falls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a drop of honey		the ground		thus property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
2	go	present	a fly			after drop		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	snap	present	a bird				at the fly	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at fly=Location
4	go	present	a dog				for the bird	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bird=Beneficiary
5	go	present	another dog	the masters of the two dogs			for the first	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for first=Beneficiary
6	happen	present	the two dogs					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	is a	to-infinitive		kings and quarrel				tree rules
8	go	infinitive			war			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location
9	devastate	present · passive	kings and quarrel not said here	whole provinces				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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