Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 83
So he sent one of his angels in the form of a fakir into the jungle; and the angel went up to Laili, and threw some powder in her face, and instantly she fell to the ground a heap of ashes.
Who acts: Majnun, angel · What happens: send, go up, throw, fall, form · To what, where: one, jungle, Laili, powder, face, heap
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 (Majnun, angel), 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 | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 sent | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 angels | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 angels | nmod:poss |
| 7 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 angels | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fakir | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fakir | det |
| 13 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 form | nmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 jungle | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 jungle | det |
| 16 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 angel | det |
| 20 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 went | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 Laili | case |
| 24 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 threw | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 threw | cc |
| 27 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 powder | det |
| 29 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threw | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 face | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 face | nmod:poss |
| 32 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threw | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fell | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fell | cc |
| 35 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 37 fell | advmod |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 fell | nsubj |
| 37 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 ground | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 ground | det |
| 40 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | obl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 heap | det |
| 42 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 fell | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 ashes | case |
| 44 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 heap | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Majnun | one of Majnun's angels in the form of a fakir | the jungle | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | |||
| 2 | go up | past | the angel | Laili | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | Majnun not said here | some powder | angel's face | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent powder=Theme in face=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall | past | angel | a heap of ashes | to the ground; instantly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | |||
| 5 | form | a fakir | nom form «communication transitive»: of=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.
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