Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 19
When it reached her ankles she tried to fill her pitcher, but it would not go under the water.
Who acts: water, sister · What happens: reach, try, fill, not go · To what, where: ankles, pitcher, water
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 (water, sister), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tried | advcl |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 ankles | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tried | nsubj |
| 7 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fill | mark |
| 9 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | xcomp |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pitcher | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fill | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 go | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 go | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 go | advmod |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 tried | conj |
| 18 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 go | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | water | sister's ankles | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ankle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | sister | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fill not said to happen | to-infinitive | sister not said here | sister's pitcher | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pitcher=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not go | would | water | the water | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under water=Location |
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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