Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 49
Cartloads of corpses of men and cattle began to come in every minute.
Who acts: Cartloads · What happens: begin, come
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 (Cartloads), 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 | Cartloads | cartload | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 began | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 corpses | case |
| 3 | corpses | corpse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cartloads | nmod |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 corpses | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cattle | cc |
| 7 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 men | conj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 come | mark |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 minute | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 minute | det |
| 13 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 come | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Cartloads of corpses of men and cattle | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | come | to-infinitive | Cartloads of corpses of men and cattle not said here | minute | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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