Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 92
Meanwhile Laili was living in the jungle where her husband had left her a little heap of ashes.
Who acts: Laili · What happens: live, leave · To what, where: jungle, husband
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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 living | advmod |
| 2 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 living | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 living | aux |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 jungle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jungle | det |
| 7 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 left | advmod |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 husband | nmod:poss |
| 10 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 living | advcl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | obj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 heap | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 heap | amod |
| 16 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ashes | case |
| 18 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 heap | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | Laili | the jungle | meanwhile property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in jungle=Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | Laili's husband | tree rules |
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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