Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 34
At this the Rohu fish was greatly alarmed and swam down the river as fast as he could.
What happens: alarm, swim · To what, where: river
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 fish | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 4 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | compound |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 alarmed | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 7 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 8 alarmed | advmod |
| 8 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swam | cc |
| 10 | swam | swim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 alarmed | conj |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 swam | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 swam | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 could | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 could | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fast | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | at the Rohu fish; greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | swim | participle | the river | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory |
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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