Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 120
While he was anxiously expecting to be fed, no one thought of him.
Who acts: Harisarman · What happens: expect, feed, think · To what, where: Harisarman
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 (Harisarman), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 expecting | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 expecting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 expecting | aux |
| 4 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 5 expecting | advmod |
| 5 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fed | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fed | aux:pass |
| 8 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 expecting | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 thought | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 thought | compound |
| 12 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · progressive | Harisarman | anxiously property | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | Harisarman not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient» | |||||
| 3 | think | Harisarman | nom thought «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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