Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 91
She assumed the shape of a bee and went along buzzing, and buzzing, and buzzing.
Who acts: woman · What happens: assume, go · To what, where: shape, buzzing
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 (woman), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assumed | nsubj |
| 2 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shape | det |
| 4 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assumed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bee | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bee | det |
| 7 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shape | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 went | cc |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 assumed | conj |
| 10 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 buzzing | case |
| 11 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 buzzing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 buzzing | cc |
| 14 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 buzzing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 buzzing | cc |
| 17 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past | woman | the shape of a bee | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | woman not said here | buzzing | buzzing | buzzing obl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along buzzing=Initial_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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