Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 132
And he turned round and stepped down into the pond, and placed the crab on the mud at its edge.
Who acts: step · What happens: turn round, step down, place · To what, where: pond, crab, mud
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 (step), 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 | _ | 3 turned | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 turned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stepped | cc |
| 6 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 stepped | compound:prt |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 pond | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stepped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 placed | cc |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 crab | det |
| 15 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 mud | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mud | det |
| 18 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 edge | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 edge | nmod:poss |
| 21 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | past | step | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step down | past | step not said here | the pond | vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | place | past | step not said here | the crab | the mud | at pond's edge | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent crab=Theme on mud=Destination |
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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