Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 32
On the last evening of the tenth year one of the serpents got into the bed-chamber of the princess and sucked her life.
What happens: get, suck · To what, where: bed chamber, life
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 evening | det |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 year | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 year | det |
| 7 | tenth | tenth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 year | amod |
| 8 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 evening | nmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 year | flat |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 serpents | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 serpents | det |
| 12 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 chamber | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chamber | det |
| 16 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chamber | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 bed | punct |
| 18 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 princess | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chamber | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 sucked | cc |
| 23 | sucked | suck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 got | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 life | nmod:poss |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sucked | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the bed chamber of the princess | evening | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into chamber=Destination | ||||
| 2 | suck | past | princess's life | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent life=Source |
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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