Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 98
And in that manner he took all the fish, one by one, and ate them, till he came back and found no more!
Who acts: Crane · What happens: take, eat, come back, find · To what, where: fish, manner, more
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 took | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 manner | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 manner | det |
| 4 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 fish | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 fish | appos |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 one | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ate | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ate | cc |
| 16 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ate | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ate | conj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 came | conj |
| 25 | no | no | ADV | _ | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 found | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Crane | all fish | that manner | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Value in manner=Location | |||
| 2 | eat | past | Crane not said here | fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | Crane | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | past | Crane not said here | more | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic |
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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