Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 143

Here the animal scraped and barked, and showed in various ways that the things were underneath.

Who acts: things · What happens: scrape, bark, show, be · To what, where: animal, various ways

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 (things), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 scraped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animal	det
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scraped	nsubj:pass
4	scraped	scrape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 barked	cc
6	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 scraped	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 showed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 showed	cc
9	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scraped	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 ways	case
11	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 ways	amod
12	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 showed	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 underneath	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 things	det
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 underneath	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 underneath	cop
17	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	9 showed	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 scraped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scrape	participle · passive		the animal	here		vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	bark	participle					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	show	past			various ways		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	the things			underneath property	tree rules

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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