Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 69
When he touched Laili's clothes they caught fire, and she and he became young again.
Who acts: Prince, clothes, Laili · What happens: touch, catch, become · To what, where: clothes, fire
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 (Prince, clothes, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 touched | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Laili | case |
| 6 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 touched | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 caught | nsubj |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 became | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 became | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 became | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 he | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 she | conj |
| 15 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 touched | conj |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 became | xcomp |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 became | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Prince | Laili's clothes | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clothes=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | clothes | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Laili | again | young property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/12/69/