Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 50
In the second lives a serpent half-famished with hunger.
What happens: live, famish · To what, where: serpent
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 second | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 second | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 lives | obl |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 serpent | det |
| 6 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obj |
| 7 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 famished | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 half | punct |
| 9 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hunger | case |
| 11 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 famished | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a serpent | in the second | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme serpent=Location | ||||
| 2 | famish | participle | a serpent not said here | with hunger | 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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