Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 61
The grey light of the evening, the pumpkin colour of Gangazara, the holy ashes scattered lavishly over his body, the tigers and snakes humbling themselves at his feet, gave him the true majesty of the god Gangazara.
Who acts: snakes, grey light · What happens: scatter, humble, give, light · To what, where: holy ashes, body, tigers, feet, true majesty, Gangazara
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 (snakes, grey light), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 light | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 light | amod |
| 3 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 evening | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 evening | det |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 colour | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 colour | det |
| 9 | pumpkin | pumpkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 colour | compound |
| 10 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 light | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Gangazara | case |
| 12 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 colour | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ashes | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ashes | det |
| 15 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ashes | amod |
| 16 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 light | conj |
| 17 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ashes | acl |
| 18 | lavishly | lavishly | ADV | _ | 17 scattered | advmod |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 body | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scattered | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tigers | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tigers | det |
| 24 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 light | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 snakes | cc |
| 26 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tigers | conj |
| 27 | humbling | humble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 snakes | acl |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 humbling | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 feet | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 feet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 humbling | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 light | punct |
| 33 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 gave | iobj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 majesty | det |
| 36 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 majesty | amod |
| 37 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gave | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 god | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 god | det |
| 40 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 majesty | nmod |
| 41 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 god | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | participle | the holy ashes not said here | Gangazara's body | lavishly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over body=Destination | |||
| 2 | humble | gerund | snakes not said here | tigers = tiger | Gangazara's feet | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | give | past | the grey light of the evening and the pumpkin colour of Gangazara and the holy ashes and the tigers and snakes | the true majesty of the god | Gangazara | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient majesty=Theme | |||
| 4 | light | the evening | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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