Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 1
So pondered Gangazara in the dark cell underground, and at that moment thought of his three friends.
What happens: ponder, think · To what, where: Gangazara, dark cell
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 pondered | advmod |
| 2 | pondered | ponder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 pondered | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cell | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cell | det |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cell | amod |
| 7 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pondered | obl |
| 8 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 2 pondered | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 moment | case |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 moment | det |
| 13 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | obl |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 pondered | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 friends | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friends | nmod:poss |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 friends | nummod |
| 18 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 thought | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 pondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ponder | past | Gangazara | the dark cell | underground property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | moment | of Gangazara's three friends | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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