Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 69
I was three days ago basking myself in the morning sun, when I saw a rat running before me.
Who acts: I, rat · What happens: bask, see, run · To what, where: myself, morning sun, rat
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, rat), 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 | 6 basking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 basking | aux |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 basking | advmod |
| 6 | basking | bask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 basking | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sun | compound |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 basking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 basking | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 rat | det |
| 17 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 rat | acl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 running | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 basking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bask | past · progressive | I | myself | the morning sun | ago property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | see | past | I | a rat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | a rat not said here | before me | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before i=Trajectory |
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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