Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 32
After a time she re-appeared as a bamboo growing on the embankment of the tank in which she had been drowned.
Who acts: sister, bamboo · What happens: re-appear, grow, drown · To what, where: embankment, sister, tank
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 (sister, bamboo), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 re-appeared | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 re-appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | re-appeared | re-appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 bamboo | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bamboo | det |
| 8 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 re-appeared | obl |
| 9 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 bamboo | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 embankment | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 embankment | det |
| 12 | embankment | embankment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 growing | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tank | det |
| 15 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embankment | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 drowned | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 drowned | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 drowned | aux:pass |
| 21 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 tank | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 re-appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | re-appear | past | sister | time | as a bamboo | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | gerund | a bamboo not said here | the embankment of the tank | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on embankment=Location | ||||
| 3 | drown | past · perfect · passive | sister | the tank | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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