Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 17
As soon as the Crow had made her bill nice and sharp she returned from the stone, and looked about for the Frog.
Who acts: gutter · What happens: make, return, look · To what, where: Crow, bill, stone
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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 made | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 made | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Crow | det |
| 5 | Crow | Crow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bill | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sharp | cc |
| 12 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nice | conj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 returned | nsubj |
| 14 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 bill | acl:relcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 stone | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 returned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 looked | cc |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 Frog | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Frog | det |
| 24 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | the Crow | gutter obj; bill obj; soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | past | gutter | bill not said here | the stone | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bill=Theme from stone=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | look | past | for the Frog; about property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for frog=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: «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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