Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 7
Thus thinking, he passed the night happily in the chamber.
Who acts: chance · What happens: think, pass · To what, where: chamber
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 (chance), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 passed | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | chance not said here | thus property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | chance | the chamber | night | happily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in chamber=Location |
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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