Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 57
So saying, he hid himself in a corner in a pile of firewood.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, hide · To what, where: man, corner · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hid | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hid | nsubj |
| 5 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 hid | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 corner | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 corner | det |
| 9 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hid | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 pile | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pile | det |
| 12 | pile | pile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 corner | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 firewood | case |
| 14 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pile | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | man not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hide | past | man | man | a corner in a pile of firewood | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=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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