Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 59
Having completed her toilet, she cooked the meal of rice as usual, and having eaten some herself, she placed the young man's portion under his bed, as before, and was about to enter the fiddle again, when he, running out from his hiding-place, caught her in his arms.
Who acts: girl, man · What happens: have, complete, cook, eat, place, be · To what, where: toilet, meal, girl, portion, bed, fiddle
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 (girl, 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 completed | reparandum |
| 2 | completed | complete | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 toilet | nmod:poss |
| 4 | toilet | toilet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 completed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cooked | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cooked | nsubj |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 completed | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meal | det |
| 9 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooked | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rice | case |
| 11 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meal | nmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 usual | case |
| 13 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cooked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eaten | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eaten | cc |
| 16 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 eaten | aux |
| 17 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 cooked | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 herself | nsubj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 eaten | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 placed | nsubj |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 completed | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 portion | nmod:poss |
| 26 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 25 man | case |
| 27 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obj |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 bed | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bed | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 before | punct |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 before | case |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 placed | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 about | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 about | cc |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 about | cop |
| 37 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 completed | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 enter | mark |
| 39 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 about | xcomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 fiddle | det |
| 41 | fiddle | fiddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 enter | obj |
| 42 | again | again | ADV | _ | 39 enter | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 running | punct |
| 44 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 running | advmod |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 running | nsubj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 running | punct |
| 47 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 completed | advcl |
| 48 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 running | compound:prt |
| 49 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 place | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 place | nmod:poss |
| 51 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 place | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 hiding | punct |
| 53 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 running | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 caught | punct |
| 55 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 completed | parataxis |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 caught | obj |
| 57 | in | in | ADP | _ | 59 arms | case |
| 58 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 59 arms | nmod:poss |
| 59 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 caught | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | complete | past | girl's toilet | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toilet=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | cook | past | girl | the meal of rice | as usual | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund · perfect | girl not said here | girl | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | place | past | girl | the young man's portion | man's bed | before property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent portion=Theme under bed=Destination | ||
| 6 | is | past | about property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | enter | to-infinitive | the fiddle | again | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fiddle=Destination | ||||
| 8 | run out | gerund | man | man's hiding place | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory | ||||
| 9 | catch | past | girl | man's arms | vn get-13.5.1 «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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