Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 85
He hung the pot on a peg on the wall, placed his couch beneath, and looking intently at it all the night, he thought, "Ah, that pot is indeed brimful of rice.
Who acts: n, pot · What happens: hang, place, look, think, be · To what, where: pot, peg, couch beneath · Speech: someone speaks here
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, pot), 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 | 2 hung | nsubj |
| 2 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pot | det |
| 4 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hung | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 peg | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 peg | det |
| 7 | peg | peg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hung | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 wall | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wall | det |
| 10 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peg | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hung | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 beneath | nmod:poss |
| 14 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beneath | compound |
| 15 | beneath | beneath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 thought | cc |
| 18 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 thought | advcl |
| 19 | intently | intently | ADV | _ | 18 looking | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looking | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 night | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 looking | punct |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hung | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 brimful | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 brimful | punct |
| 30 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 36 brimful | discourse |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Ah | punct |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 pot | det |
| 33 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brimful | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 brimful | cop |
| 35 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 36 brimful | advmod |
| 36 | brimful | brimful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thought | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 rice | case |
| 38 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 brimful | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | n | the pot | a peg on the wall | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pot=Theme on peg=Destination | |||
| 2 | place | past | n not said here | n's couch beneath | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent beneath=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | n not said here | night | at Pot; intently property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | n | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | that pot | of rice; brimful, indeed property | tree rules |
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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