Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 63
I am the king of serpents, and the son of Adisesha, who is now pining away in agony for my disappearance.
Who acts: I, son, my · What happens: be, pine away, disappear · To what, where: king, agony
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 (I, son, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 king | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 king | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 serpents | case |
| 6 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 king | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 son | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 son | det |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Adisesha | case |
| 12 | Adisesha | Adisesha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pining | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 pining | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 pining | aux |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 pining | advmod |
| 17 | pining | pine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 son | acl |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 pining | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 agony | case |
| 20 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pining | obl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 disappearance | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pining | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the king and the son of Adisesha | of serpents | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pine away | present · progressive | the son of Adisesha | agony | now | for my disappearance; away property | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for disappearance=Theme | ||
| 3 | disappear | my | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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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