Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 110
Nearer and nearer he advanced, till, just as he thought to lay hold of the beautiful strange creature, it gave one mighty bound, leapt clean over the King's head, and fled towards the mountains.
Who acts: king, creature · What happens: advance, think, lay, give, leapt, flee · To what, where: hold, one mighty bound, head, mountains, beautiful strange creature
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 (king, 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 | Nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 advanced | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 nearer | cc |
| 3 | nearer | near | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Nearer | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 advanced | nsubj |
| 5 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 till | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 advanced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 thought | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 thought | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 advanced | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 lay | mark |
| 14 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 thought | xcomp |
| 15 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lay | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 creature | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 creature | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 creature | amod |
| 20 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | parataxis |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 bound | nummod |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bound | amod |
| 26 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leapt | punct |
| 28 | leapt | leapt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 gave | conj |
| 29 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leapt | xcomp |
| 30 | over | over | ADP | _ | 34 head | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 King | det |
| 32 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 King | case |
| 34 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 leapt | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 fled | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 fled | cc |
| 37 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 advanced | conj |
| 38 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 40 mountains | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mountains | det |
| 40 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 fled | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past | king | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | king | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lay | to-infinitive | king not said here | hold of the beautiful strange creature | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 4 | give | past | creature | one mighty bound | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | ||||
| 5 | leapt | infinitive | creature not said here | the King's head | clean property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | flee | past | king not said here | the mountains | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | hold | the beautiful strange creature | 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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