Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 31
This time it was picked up and carried off by a kite.
What happens: pick up, carry off · 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: 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 picked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 picked | aux:pass |
| 5 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 picked | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carried | cc |
| 8 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 picked | conj |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 carried | compound:prt |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 kite | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kite | det |
| 12 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carried | obl:agent |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past · passive | ring | time | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry off | participle | vn carry-11.4 «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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