Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 9

Now, on the way they had to cross a stream.

Who acts: rats · What happens: have, cross · To what, where: way, stream

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 (rats), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 had	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 way	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 cross	mark
9	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 had	xcomp
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cross	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	rats = rat			the way	now		tree rules
2	cross	to-infinitive	rats = rat not said here	a stream					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=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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