Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 135
Not long after this the other merchant's shop was broken into by thieves and completely sacked.
What happens: break, sack · To what, where: shop, thieves
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: 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 broken | obl |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 long | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 merchant | det |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 merchant | amod |
| 7 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shop | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 merchant | case |
| 9 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 broken | aux:pass |
| 11 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 thieves | case |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 thieves | case |
| 14 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 broken | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sacked | cc |
| 16 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 17 sacked | advmod |
| 17 | sacked | sack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 broken | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past · passive | the other merchant's shop | into thieves result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into thief=Result | ||||
| 2 | sack | participle | completely property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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