Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 110
At once the old recollections rushed into his mind, and he thought of the tiger to test his fidelity.
Who acts: prophecy · What happens: rush, think, test, mind · To what, where: old recollections, mind, fidelity · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prophecy), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 thought | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 recollections | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 recollections | amod |
| 5 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 once | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 recollections | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tiger | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tiger | det |
| 16 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 test | mark |
| 18 | test | test | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fidelity | nmod:poss |
| 20 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 test | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | the old recollections not said here | into prophecy's mind result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into mind=Result | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | prophecy | of the tiger; once property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | test | to-infinitive | prophecy's fidelity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme | |||||
| 4 | mind | prophecy | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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