Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 54
So the fish agreed, and the snake got a knife and cut him open, and out jumped Laili.
Who acts: fish, snake · What happens: agree, get, cut, jump · To what, where: knife, medicine, Laili
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: who acts (fish, snake), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 agreed | nsubj |
| 4 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 got | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cut | cc |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | obj |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cut | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jumped | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 jumped | cc |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 jumped | advmod |
| 19 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 agreed | conj |
| 20 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 jumped | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the fish | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get | past | the snake | a knife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knife=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | the snake not said here | medicine | open property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||
| 4 | jump | past | the fish not said here | Laili | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laili=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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