Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 23
At last he succeeded; heaven threw in his way a ruined well.
Who acts: DEATH, heaven · What happens: succeed, throw, ruin · To what, where: last, way
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 (DEATH, heaven), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 succeeded | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 succeeded | nsubj |
| 4 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 succeeded | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 way | nmod:poss |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ruined | det |
| 12 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 way | acl |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 ruined | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed | past | DEATH | last | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | heaven | DEATH's way | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in way=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ruin | participle | DEATH's way not said here | well property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=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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