Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 94
Then the crane took the old purblind fish first to the bank of the other pond, and alighted in a Varana-tree growing on the bank there.
Who acts: crane, Varana tree · What happens: take, alight, grow · To what, where: old purblind fish, bank, Varana tree
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 (crane, Varana tree), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crane | det |
| 3 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fish | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fish | amod |
| 7 | purblind | purblind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fish | amod |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 took | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 pond | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pond | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pond | amod |
| 16 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bank | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 alighted | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 alighted | cc |
| 19 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 tree | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 22 | Varana | Varana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Varana | punct |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 alighted | obl |
| 25 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 tree | acl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bank | det |
| 28 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 growing | obl |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 growing | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the crane | the old purblind fish | the bank of the other pond | then | first property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme to bank=Destination | |
| 2 | alight | participle | the crane not said here | a Varana tree | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | a Varana tree not said here | the bank; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=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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