Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 15
The Crow, thinking this was a good idea, took two or three hops towards the stone, and began sharpening her bill.
Who acts: Crow, gutter · What happens: think, be, take, begin, sharpen, bill · To what, where: this, good idea, two hops, bill
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, gutter), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Crow | det |
| 2 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 idea | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Crow | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 thinking | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 idea | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 idea | parataxis |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 hops | nummod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 three | cc |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 two | conj |
| 15 | hops | hop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 took | obj |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stone | det |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 began | cc |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 22 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 began | xcomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bill | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sharpening | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 idea | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the Crow not said here | this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the Crow | a good idea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | two hops | towards the stone | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hop=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | sharpen | gerund | gutter's bill | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bill=Patient | |||||
| 6 | bill | gutter | 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: «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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