Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 55
Then Laili slipped down off her horse, and she went to Majnun's dead body, and she cut her little finger inside her hand straight down from the top of her nail to her palm, and out of this gushed blood like healing medicine.
Who acts: Laili, gushed blood · What happens: slip down, go, cut, gush, heal · To what, where: dead body, little finger, hand, medicine
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili, gushed blood), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 slipped | advmod |
| 2 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | nsubj |
| 3 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 slipped | compound:prt |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 horse | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 horse | nmod:poss |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 body | case |
| 13 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Majnun | case |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 body | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 slipped | conj |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 finger | nmod:poss |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 finger | amod |
| 23 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obj |
| 24 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 27 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 28 down | advmod |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 cut | advmod |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 top | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 top | det |
| 31 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 nail | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 nail | nmod:poss |
| 34 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 top | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 palm | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 palm | nmod:poss |
| 37 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 blood | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 blood | cc |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 blood | case |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 blood | case |
| 42 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 blood | det |
| 43 | gushed | gush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 blood | amod |
| 44 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slipped | parataxis |
| 45 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 46 healing | mark |
| 46 | healing | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 blood | acl |
| 47 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 healing | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slipped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip down | past | Laili | then | off Laili's horse | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off horse=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | go | past | Laili | Majnun's dead body | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to body=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | Laili | Laili's little finger | Laili's hand | from the top of Laili's nail; to Laili's palm result; down property | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient PP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: agent=Causer finger=Patient from top=Initial_State to palm=Result | ||
| 4 | gush | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | heal | gerund | this gushed blood not said here | medicine | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent medicine=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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