Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 25
From that day tigers and serpents, acting under the orders of their kings, united in killing as many persons and cattle as possible.
Who acts: day tigers · What happens: act, kill, order · To what, where: orders, many persons, kings
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 (day tigers), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 tigers | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 tigers | nsubj |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tigers | compound |
| 4 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 serpents | cc |
| 6 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tigers | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 acting | punct |
| 8 | acting | act | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 tigers | acl |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 orders | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 orders | det |
| 11 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 acting | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 kings | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 orders | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 united | punct |
| 16 | united | united | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kings | amod |
| 17 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 killing | mark |
| 18 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 united | advcl |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 many | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 persons | amod |
| 21 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 killing | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 cattle | cc |
| 23 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 persons | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 possible | mark |
| 25 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 killing | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tigers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | gerund | day tigers and serpents not said here | the orders of serpents's kings | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | kill | gerund | day tigers and serpents not said here | many persons and cattle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | ||||
| 3 | order | serpents's kings | nom order «communication 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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