Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 66
On saying this, he dived into the water and was lost to sight.
Who acts: creature · What happens: say, dive, lose · To what, where: this, water · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (creature), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 saying | mark |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dived | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 saying | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dived | nsubj |
| 6 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dived | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lost | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lost | aux:pass |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dived | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sight | case |
| 14 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lost | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | creature not said here | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | dive | past | creature | the water | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into water=Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · passive | creature not said here | to sight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
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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