Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 50
At that time there was living, in a pond in the Himalaya mountains, a tortoise.
What happens: live · To what, where: pond
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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 living | aux |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pond | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pond | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pond | det |
| 10 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 living | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | Himalaya | Himalaya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountains | compound |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pond | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tortoise | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 tortoise | det |
| 17 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pond | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · progressive | a pond in the Himalaya mountains and a tortoise | time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location |
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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