Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 104
On this scrap of paper were written three pieces of advice--First, If a person is travelling and reaches any strange place at night, let him be careful where he puts up, and not close his eyes in sleep, lest he close them in death.
Who acts: person, Bhagawant · What happens: write, travel, reach, let, be, put up · To what, where: scrap, strange place, person, eyes
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, Bhagawant), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 scrap | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 scrap | det |
| 3 | scrap | scrap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 written | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 paper | case |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scrap | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | aux:pass |
| 7 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pieces | nummod |
| 9 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 written | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 advice | case |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pieces | nmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 First | punct |
| 13 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 written | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 travelling | punct |
| 15 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 travelling | mark |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 person | det |
| 17 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 travelling | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 travelling | aux |
| 19 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 written | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reaches | cc |
| 21 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | conj |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 place | det |
| 23 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 place | amod |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reaches | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 night | case |
| 26 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reaches | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 reaches | parataxis |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 careful | cop |
| 31 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 let | xcomp |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 puts | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 puts | nsubj |
| 34 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 careful | advcl |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 34 puts | compound:prt |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 close | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 close | cc |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 close | advmod |
| 39 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 written | parataxis |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 41 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 close | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 sleep | case |
| 43 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 close | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 close | punct |
| 45 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 47 close | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 close | nsubj |
| 47 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 close | conj |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 close | obj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 death | case |
| 50 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 close | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · passive | this scrap of paper | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient piece=Topic | ||||
| 2 | travel a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | a person | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | present | any strange place | night | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | person | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | infinitive | person not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | put up | present | person | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | not close | infinitive | Bhagawant's eyes | in sleep | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient in sleep=Topic | ||||
| 8 | close | infinitive | Bhagawant | eyes = eye | in death | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Patient in death=Topic |
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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