Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 3
They held their council, and decided to make an underground passage from the inside of a ruined well to the dungeon.
Who acts: king · What happens: hold, decide, make, ruin · To what, where: council, underground passage, inside
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 (king), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 council | nmod:poss |
| 4 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 decided | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 decided | cc |
| 7 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 make | mark |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 decided | xcomp |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 passage | det |
| 11 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 passage | amod |
| 12 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 inside | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 inside | det |
| 15 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passage | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dungeon | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 dungeon | det |
| 18 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 dungeon | amod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 dungeon | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 dungeon | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dungeon | det |
| 22 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inside | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | king | king's council | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decide | past | king not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | king not said here | a underground passage | the inside of a ruined dungeon | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset passage=Product from inside=Material | |||
| 4 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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