Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 126
Then Harisarman drew all kinds of pretended diagrams, and said: "The horse has been placed by thieves on the boundary line south from this place.
Who acts: Harisarman, thieves · What happens: draw, pretend, say, place · To what, where: kinds, horse, boundary line · Speech: someone speaks here
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, thieves), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | Harisarman | Harisarman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 kinds | det |
| 5 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 diagrams | case |
| 7 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 diagrams | amod |
| 8 | diagrams | diagram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 placed | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horse | det |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 placed | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 placed | aux:pass |
| 18 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 thieves | case |
| 20 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 placed | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 line | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 line | det |
| 23 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 line | compound |
| 24 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 25 | south | south | ADV | _ | 18 placed | advmod |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 place | det |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 placed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Harisarman | all kinds of pretended diagrams | then | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | |||
| 2 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Harisarman not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | place in a quote | present · perfect · passive | thieves | the horse | the boundary line | from this place; south property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme on line=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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