Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 70
Then she set the wicked Raja's head straight on his shoulders, and she squeezed the wound in her finger till a little blood-medicine came out of it.
Who acts: Laili, little blood medicine · What happens: set, squeeze, come out · To what, where: head, shoulders, wound, finger
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, little blood medicine), 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 set | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Raja | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Raja | amod |
| 6 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Raja | case |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obj |
| 9 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 12 shoulders | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shoulders | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 squeezed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 squeezed | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 squeezed | nsubj |
| 16 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wound | det |
| 18 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 squeezed | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 finger | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 finger | nmod:poss |
| 21 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 squeezed | obl |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 came | mark |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 medicine | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 medicine | amod |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 medicine | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 blood | punct |
| 27 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 came | nsubj |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 squeezed | advcl |
| 29 | out | out | ADV | _ | 28 came | advmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 came | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Laili | the wicked Raja's head | man's shoulders | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||
| 2 | squeeze | past | Laili | the wound | Laili's finger | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent wound=Theme in finger=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | come out | past | a little blood medicine | of finger; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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.
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