Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 26
Every day people were carried away by tigers or bitten by serpents.
Who acts: tigers · What happens: carry away, bite · To what, where: people
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 (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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 carried | aux:pass |
| 5 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 carried | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 tigers | case |
| 8 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 carried | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 bitten | cc |
| 10 | bitten | bite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 carried | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 serpents | case |
| 12 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bitten | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past · passive | tigers | people | day | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||
| 2 | bite | participle | tigers not said here | by serpents | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by serpent=Location |
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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