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Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 1

A Crow once caught a fine fat Frog, and taking him in her bill she flew with him to the roof of a neighbouring house in order to devour him at her leisure.

Who acts: Crow, Frog · What happens: catch, take, fly, neighbour, devour, bill · To what, where: fine fat, Crow, bill, roof, leisure

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow, Frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

detnsubjadvmoddetamodobjappospunctccadvclobjcasenmod:possoblnsubjacl:relclcaseoblcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodmarkfixedmarkadvclobjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootADETCrowNOUNonceADVcaughtVERBaDETfineADJfatNOUNFrogPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJtakingVERBhimPRONinADPherPRONbillNOUNshePRONflewVERBwithADPhimPRONtoADPtheDETroofNOUNofADPaDETneighbouringVERBhouseNOUNinSCONJorderNOUNtoPARTdevourVERBhimPRONatADPherPRONleisureNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 Crowdet
2CrowcrowNOUNNumber=Sing4 caughtnsubj
3onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult4 caughtadvmod
4caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art7 fatdet
6finefineADJDegree=Pos7 fatamod
7fatfatNOUNNumber=Sing4 caughtobj
8FrogFrogPROPNNumber=Sing7 fatappos
9,,PUNCT_11 takingpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 takingcc
11takingtakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 caughtadvcl
12himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 takingobj
13ininADP_15 billcase
14herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 billnmod:poss
15billbillNOUNNumber=Sing11 takingobl
16sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 flewnsubj
17flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 billacl:relcl
18withwithADP_19 himcase
19himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 flewobl
20totoADP_22 roofcase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 roofdet
22roofroofNOUNNumber=Sing17 flewobl
23ofofADP_26 housecase
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 housedet
25neighbouringneighbourVERBVerbForm=Ger26 houseamod
26househouseNOUNNumber=Sing22 roofnmod
27ininSCONJExtPos=SCONJ30 devourmark
28orderorderNOUNNumber=Sing27 infixed
29totoPART_30 devourmark
30devourdevourVERBVerbForm=Inf11 takingadvcl
31himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 devourobj
32atatADP_34 leisurecase
33herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 leisurenmod:poss
34leisureleisureNOUNNumber=Sing30 devourobl
35..PUNCT_4 caughtpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1catchpasta Crowa fine fatonce propertyvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme
2takegerunda Crow not said hereCrowFrog's billvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in bill=Location
3flypastFrogFrog's bill not said herethe roof of a neighbouring housewith Crowvn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme to roof=Destination
4neighbourgerundtree rules
5devourto-infinitivea Crow not said hereCrowFrog's leisurevn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6billFrognom 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: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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