Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 103
He reached Benares, and lived there for more than ten years, and quite forgot the tiger, serpent, rat, and goldsmith.
Who acts: Gangazara · What happens: reach, live, forget · To what, where: Benares, tiger
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gangazara), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reached | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 lived | cc |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 ten | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 more | fixed |
| 11 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 years | nummod |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgot | cc |
| 15 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 16 forgot | advmod |
| 16 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 reached | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 tiger | det |
| 18 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 serpent | punct |
| 20 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tiger | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rat | punct |
| 22 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tiger | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 goldsmith | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 goldsmith | cc |
| 25 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 forgot | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Gangazara | Benares | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent benares=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | Gangazara not said here | there | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | forget | past | Gangazara not said here | the tiger and serpent and rat | 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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