Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 120
Matting was spread for him to squat on, and the best provisions set before him.
Who acts: best provisions · What happens: mat, spread, squat on, set
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 (best provisions), 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 | Matting | mat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | aux:pass |
| 3 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spread | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 squat | mark |
| 7 | squat | squat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 spread | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 squat | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 provisions | det |
| 12 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 provisions | amod |
| 13 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spread | parataxis |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 set | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mat | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | spread | past · passive | for prince | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | squat on | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | set | present | the best provisions | before prince | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination |
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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