Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 52
He was awakened by a soft rustling sound, and looking about him, saw a large serpent which was making its way to an eagle's nest built in the tree under which he lay, and in the nest were two young eagles.
Who acts: soft rustling sound, large serpent, meantime, two young eagles · What happens: awaken, look, see, make, build, lie · To what, where: meantime, large serpent, way, nest, tree
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soft rustling sound, large serpent, meantime, two young eagles), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 awakened | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | aux:pass |
| 3 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sound | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 6 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sound | amod |
| 7 | rustling | rustling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sound | compound |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awakened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awakened | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 serpent | amod |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 making | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 making | aux |
| 21 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 way | nmod:poss |
| 23 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 nest | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 eagle | det |
| 26 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 nest | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 eagle | case |
| 28 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 making | obl |
| 29 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 nest | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 tree | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 built | obl |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 34 which | case |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 lay | obl |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 tree | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 were | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 were | cc |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 nest | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 nest | det |
| 41 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 were | obl |
| 42 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 43 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 eagles | nummod |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 eagles | amod |
| 45 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 were | nsubj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a soft rustling sound | meantime | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | about meantime | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | a large serpent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | make | past · progressive | a large serpent | serpent's way | to a eagle's nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 5 | build | participle | a eagle's nest not said here | in the tree | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tree=Attribute | ||||
| 6 | lie | past | meantime | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location | ||||
| 7 | be | past | two young eagles | the nest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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