Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 5
They, with their teeth, bored the ground a long way to the walls of the prison.
Who acts: armies · What happens: bore · To what, where: ground
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 (armies), 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 | 7 bored | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 teeth | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 teeth | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 They | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 They | punct |
| 7 | bored | bore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bored | obj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 way | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 way | amod |
| 12 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bored | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 walls | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 way | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 prison | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prison | det |
| 18 | prison | prison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walls | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 bored | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bore | past | armies = army | the ground | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus ground=Experiencer way=Result |
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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