Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 73
Now at that time the water used to run short at the dry season in a certain pond, not over large, in which there were a good many fish.
Who acts: time · What happens: use, run, not be · To what, where: water
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 (time), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Now | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 used | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 run | mark |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 used | advcl |
| 10 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 run | xcomp |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 season | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 season | det |
| 13 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 season | amod |
| 14 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 short | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 pond | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pond | det |
| 17 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pond | amod |
| 18 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 season | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 large | punct |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 large | advmod |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 large | case |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pond | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 were | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 were | obl |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 were | expl |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 large | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 fish | det |
| 29 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fish | amod |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 fish | amod |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 were | nsubj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle · passive | that time not said here | the water | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | run | to-infinitive | that time not said here | short property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | large property | tree rules |
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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