Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 56
Twelve years she had wandered about the jungle, and for twelve years she had lived inside her Rohu; and she was no longer beautiful, and had lost her teeth.
Who acts: Laili · What happens: wander, live, be, lose · To what, where: Twelve years, teeth
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 (Laili), 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 | Twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | aux |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 jungle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jungle | det |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lived | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lived | cc |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lived | aux |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | conj |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 Rohu | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 Rohu | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lived | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 beautiful | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 beautiful | cc |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 beautiful | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 beautiful | cop |
| 24 | no | no | ADV | _ | 25 longer | advmod |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wandered | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 lost | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lost | cc |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 lost | aux |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 wandered | conj |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 32 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lost | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past · perfect · passive | Twelve years | about the jungle | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | Laili | year | inside Laili's Rohu | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside rohu=Location | |||
| 3 | is | past | Laili | beautiful, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | past · perfect | Laili's teeth | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |
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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