Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 60
And making the tortoise bite hold of a stick, they themselves took the two ends in their teeth, and flew up into the air.
Who acts: others · What happens: make, take, fly up, hold · To what, where: bite hold, two ends, teeth, air, stick
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 (others), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 making | cc |
| 2 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 took | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hold | det |
| 4 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bite | compound |
| 5 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | compound |
| 6 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stick | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stick | det |
| 9 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hold | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 making | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 11 they | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ends | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 ends | nummod |
| 16 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 flew | cc |
| 22 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 took | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 flew | compound:prt |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 air | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 air | det |
| 26 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | others = other not said here | the bite hold of a stick | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hold=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | past | others = other | the two ends | others's teeth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent end=Value in tooth=Location | |||
| 3 | fly up | past | others = other not said here | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 4 | hold | a stick | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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