Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 31
The Bonga then transformed her into a Bonga like himself, and carried her off.
Who acts: Bonga · What happens: transform, carry off · To what, where: sister, Bonga
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 (Bonga), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Bonga | det |
| 2 | Bonga | Bonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 transformed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 transformed | advmod |
| 4 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 transformed | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 Bonga | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Bonga | det |
| 8 | Bonga | Bonga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 transformed | obl |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 Bonga | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 transformed | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 carried | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | the Bonga | sister | then | into a Bonga like Bonga result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into bonga=Result | ||
| 2 | carry off | past | the Bonga not said here | sister | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
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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