Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 61
Seeing him thus carried by the hamsas, some villagers called out, "Two wild ducks are carrying a tortoise along on a stick!"
Who acts: Seeing, Two wild ducks · What happens: see, carry, call out · To what, where: Mount, villagers, tortoise, stick · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Seeing, Two wild ducks), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 carried | csubj:pass |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 carried | advmod |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 hamsas | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hamsas | det |
| 7 | hamsas | hamsa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 villagers | punct |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 villagers | det |
| 10 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hamsas | conj |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 villagers | acl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 called | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 15 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ducks | nummod |
| 16 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ducks | amod |
| 17 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 carrying | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 carrying | aux |
| 19 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 carried | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tortoise | det |
| 21 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obj |
| 22 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 carrying | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 stick | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 stick | det |
| 25 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obl |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Mount | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | carry | participle | Seeing | by the hamsas and some villagers; thus property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: express | participle | some villagers not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | carry in a quote | present · progressive | Two wild ducks | a tortoise | a stick | along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme |
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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