Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 84
He had collected a quantity of rice by begging, and after having dined off it, he filled a pot with what was left over.
Who acts: n · What happens: collect, beg, have, dine, fill, leave over · To what, where: quantity, pot
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 (n), 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 collected | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 collected | aux |
| 3 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 quantity | det |
| 5 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 collected | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 rice | case |
| 7 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 quantity | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 9 begging | mark |
| 9 | begging | beg | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 collected | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 filled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 having | mark |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 filled | advcl |
| 14 | dined | dine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 having | xcomp |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 dined | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 filled | nsubj |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 collected | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pot | det |
| 21 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obj |
| 22 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 25 left | mark |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 25 left | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 left | aux:pass |
| 25 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 filled | advcl |
| 26 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 left | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 collected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | past · perfect | n | a quantity of rice | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | gerund | n not said here | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | n not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | dine | participle | n not said here | off rice | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fill | past | n | a pot | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pot=Patient | ||||
| 6 | leave over | past · passive | over property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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