Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 27
He went on till he reached a village, where some folk were quarrelling over a snake that had just been caught.
Who acts: fellow, folk · What happens: go on, reach, quarrell, catch · To what, where: village, snake
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, folk), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 reached | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 village | det |
| 8 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reached | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 quarrelling | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 quarrelling | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 folk | det |
| 12 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarrelling | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 quarrelling | aux |
| 14 | quarrelling | quarrell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 village | acl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 snake | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 snake | det |
| 17 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quarrelling | obl |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 caught | aux |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 caught | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 caught | aux:pass |
| 22 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 snake | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | fellow | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | fellow | a village | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 3 | quarrell | past · progressive | some folk | over a snake | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | past · perfect · passive | a snake | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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