Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 116
And the crane took him and showed him the pond, and then turned off towards the Varana-tree.
Who acts: crane · What happens: take, show, turn off · To what, where: crab, pond
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane), 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 | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crane | det |
| 3 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 showed | cc |
| 7 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 showed | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 showed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 turned | advmod |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 18 | Varana | Varana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tree | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Varana | punct |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the crane | crab | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the crane not said here | the pond | crab | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pond=Topic | |||
| 3 | turn off | past | the crane not said here | then | towards the Varana tree | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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