Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 5
While he thought this, he gave a kick with his foot, and broke the pot.
Who acts: boy · What happens: think, give, break · To what, where: this, kick, pot
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 (boy), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 thought | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | advcl |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 thought | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kick | det |
| 9 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foot | nmod:poss |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kick | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 broke | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 broke | cc |
| 15 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 broke | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | boy | this | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot this=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | boy | a kick | with boy's foot | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Theme | |||
| 3 | break | past | boy not said here | the pot | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=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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