Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 108
So quickly did it pass that he scarcely saw it; nevertheless a burning desire to capture and possess the beautiful strange creature filled his breast.
Who acts: mind, king, beautiful strange creature · What happens: pass, see, burn, capture, possess, fill · To what, where: burning desire, mind, breast
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mind, king, beautiful strange creature), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 pass | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 pass | nsubj |
| 5 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 saw | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 9 saw | advmod |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pass | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 desire | punct |
| 12 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 15 desire | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 desire | det |
| 14 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 desire | amod |
| 15 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pass | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 capture | mark |
| 17 | capture | capture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 desire | acl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 possess | cc |
| 19 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 capture | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 creature | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 22 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 creature | amod |
| 23 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | nsubj |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 possess | ccomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 breast | nmod:poss |
| 26 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · do-support | mind | a burning desire | quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | king | mind | scarcely property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | capture | to-infinitive | mind not said here | a burning desire not said here | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | possess | infinitive | mind not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | fill | past | the beautiful strange creature | king's breast | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent breast=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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