Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 11
Whatever clothes you find hanging in a house, cut down, dip the pieces in water, and bring the wet bits to our benefactor.
Who acts: clothes · What happens: find, hang, cut down, dip, bring · To what, where: house, pieces, water, wet bits, benefactor
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: who acts (clothes), 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 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 clothes | det:predet |
| 2 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 find | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hanging | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cut | punct |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hanging | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dip | punct |
| 13 | dip | dip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pieces | det |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 dip | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 find | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bits | det |
| 22 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bits | amod |
| 23 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 bring | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 benefactor | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 26 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | whatever clothes | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | whatever clothes not said here | a house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 3 | cut down | participle | whatever clothes not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | dip | infinitive | whatever clothes not said here | the pieces | water | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent piece=Theme in water=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | bring | infinitive | whatever clothes not said here | the wet bits | our benefactor | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bit=Theme to benefactor=Destination |
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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