Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 67
She brought them water on their arrival, and afterwards set cooked rice before them.
Who acts: girl, brothers · What happens: bring, set, cook, arrive · To what, where: brothers, arrival, cooked rice
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, brothers), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 arrival | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 7 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 set | cc |
| 10 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 brought | parataxis |
| 12 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rice | amod |
| 13 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obj |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | girl | brothers = brother | brothers's arrival | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination water=Theme | |||
| 2 | set | participle | cooked rice | before brothers = brother | afterwards property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rice=Theme before they=Destination | |||
| 3 | cook | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | arrive | brothers = brother | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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