Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 118
He took leave of the tiger-king, and after his disappearance thought of the kings of serpents and rats, who came in their turn with their presents, and after the usual greetings and exchange of words took their leave.
Who acts: Gangazara, serpents, usual greetings · What happens: take, leave, think, come, disappear, exchange · To what, where: turn, leave, words
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, serpents, usual greetings), 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 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 took | ccomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 6 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 king | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tiger | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leave | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 disappearance | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obl |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kings | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 kings | det |
| 17 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thought | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 serpents | case |
| 19 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kings | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rats | cc |
| 21 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 serpents | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 serpents | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 turn | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 turn | nmod:poss |
| 27 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 came | obl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 presents | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 presents | nmod:poss |
| 30 | presents | present | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 turn | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 took | cc |
| 33 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 greetings | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 greetings | det |
| 35 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 greetings | amod |
| 36 | greetings | greeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 took | nsubj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 exchange | cc |
| 38 | exchange | exchange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 greetings | conj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 words | case |
| 40 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 exchange | nmod |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 leave | nmod:poss |
| 43 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Gangazara | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition | |||||
| 2 | leave | infinitive | Gangazara not said here | of the tiger king | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Gangazara not said here | after Gangazara's disappearance | of the kings of serpents and rats | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | come | past | serpents and rats | diamonds's turn with diamonds's presents | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | ||||
| 5 | take | past | the usual greetings and exchange of words | diamonds's leave | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leave=Theme | ||||
| 6 | disappear | Gangazara | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | exchange | words | nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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