Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 68
And with that, by a stroke of his wand, Balna's husband and his brothers resumed their natural shapes. "
Who acts: husband · What happens: resume, stroke · To what, where: natural shapes, wand
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 (husband), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 resumed | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 resumed | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 that | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 stroke | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stroke | det |
| 7 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resumed | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wand | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wand | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wand | wand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stroke | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stroke | punct |
| 12 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 husband | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Balna | case |
| 14 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 resumed | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brothers | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 husband | conj |
| 18 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shapes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 shapes | amod |
| 21 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 resumed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 resumed | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 resumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resume | past | Balna's husband and Raja's brothers | husbands's natural shapes | with that; by a stroke of Raja's wand | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality with that=Subeventuality | |||
| 2 | stroke | Raja's wand | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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