Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 76
So saying, the Nagaraja glided away in zigzag movements, and was out of sight in a moment.
Who acts: Nagaraja · What happens: say, glide away, be · To what, where: zigzag movements, sight · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Nagaraja), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 glided | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Nagaraja | det |
| 5 | Nagaraja | Nagaraja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 glided | nsubj |
| 6 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 glided | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 movements | case |
| 9 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 movements | compound |
| 10 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 glided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sight | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sight | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sight | cop |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 sight | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 sight | case |
| 16 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 glided | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 moment | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 moment | det |
| 19 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sight | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 glided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Nagaraja not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | glide away | past | the Nagaraja | zigzag movements | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in movement=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | is | past | sight | moment | 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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