Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 99
The ogress waited another day before she asked to see the precious thing.
Who acts: ogress · What happens: wait, ask, see · To what, where: precious thing
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 (ogress), 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 | 2 ogress | det |
| 2 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 day | det |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waited | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 asked | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 waited | advcl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 see | mark |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the ogress | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | ogress | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | ogress not said here | the precious thing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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