Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 48
He, finding it impossible to escape my claws, jumped into this well, and is living to this moment in the very bottom of it.
Who acts: word, goldsmith · What happens: find, escape, jump, live · To what, where: goldsmith, claws, this, bottom
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 (word, goldsmith), 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 | 3 finding | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finding | punct |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finding | obj |
| 5 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 finding | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 escape | mark |
| 7 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 impossible | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 claws | nmod:poss |
| 9 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 escape | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 finding | conj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 this | case |
| 13 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 jumped | obl |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 jumped | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 living | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 living | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 living | aux |
| 18 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 jumped | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 living | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 bottom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bottom | det |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 bottom | advmod |
| 25 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 living | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bottom | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 finding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | word | goldsmith | impossible property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | goldsmith not said here | my claws | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme claw=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | word not said here | into this result; well property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into this=Result | ||||
| 4 | live | present · progressive | word not said here | the bottom of goldsmith | moment | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bottom=Location |
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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