Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 12
Sorry moment, for the dog at once dropped it, and a fish swallowed it.
Who acts: Sorry moment, fish · What happens: drop, swallow · To what, where: ring
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 (Sorry moment, fish), 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 | Sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moment | amod |
| 2 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dropped | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dog | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 dog | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dog | det |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moment | conj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 dropped | obl |
| 9 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dropped | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swallowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 swallowed | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swallowed | nsubj |
| 15 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dropped | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swallowed | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Sorry moment and the dog | ring | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at once=Destination | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past | a fish | ring | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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