--- title: So she pushed old Father Raven’s body out of the nest with her bill… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: So she pushed old Father Raven’s body out of the nest with her bill and let it fall to the ground below, while she herself flew off to find food for the young ravens, which had just been hatched out. Who acts: Mother, body. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, body), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:24:27 # text = So she pushed old Father Raven’s body out of the nest with her bill and let it fall to the ground below, while she herself flew off to find food for the young ravens, which had just been hatched out. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pushed push VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 Raven Raven PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 bill bill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 below below ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 while while SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 26 conj _ _ 28 flew fly VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 32 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ravens raven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 40 just just ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 hatched hatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 acl:relcl _ _ 43 out out ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **push** | past | Mother | old Father Raven's body | | the nest | | with Mother's bill | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent body=Theme out nest=Trajectory | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | Mother *not said here* | body | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **fall** | infinitive | body *not said here* | | | | | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | | 4 | **fly off** | past | Mother | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | to-infinitive | Mother *not said here* | food | | | | for the young ravens | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for raven=Beneficiary | | 6 | **hatch out** | past · perfect · passive | | the young ravens | | | | | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | | 7 | **bill** | | Mother | | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/24/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/24/28/) - ↑ back to [How He Dislodged the Spider.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/24/)