Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 134
When the Genius who lived in the Varana-tree saw this strange affair, he made the wood resound with his plaudits, uttering in a pleasant voice the verse:
Who acts: Genius, wood · What happens: live, see, make, resound, utter · To what, where: Varana tree, strange affair, pleasant voice
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 (Genius, wood), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Genius | det |
| 3 | Genius | Genius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Genius | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | Varana | Varana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Varana | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 made | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 affair | det |
| 13 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 affair | amod |
| 14 | affair | affair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | nsubj |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wood | det |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 resound | nsubj |
| 20 | resound | resound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 plaudits | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 plaudits | nmod:poss |
| 23 | plaudits | plaudit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 resound | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 uttering | punct |
| 25 | uttering | utter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 resound | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 voice | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 voice | det |
| 28 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 voice | amod |
| 29 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 uttering | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 verse | det |
| 31 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 voice | nmod:unmarked |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Genius | the Varana tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Genius | this strange affair | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer affair=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Genius | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | resound | infinitive | the wood | with wood's plaudits | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with plaudit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | utter speech: other | gerund | the wood not said here | a pleasant voice the verse | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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