Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 125
Through this he disappeared, returning in an hour or so laden with sweetmeats, which he divided equally amongst the seven blind Queens.
Who acts: boy · What happens: disappear, return, lade, divide · To what, where: this, sweetmeats
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 (boy), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 disappeared | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disappeared | nsubj |
| 4 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 returning | punct |
| 6 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 disappeared | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returning | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 laden | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 laden | advmod |
| 12 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 disappeared | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 sweetmeats | case |
| 14 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 laden | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 divided | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 divided | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 divided | nsubj |
| 18 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sweetmeats | acl:relcl |
| 19 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 18 divided | advmod |
| 20 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 24 Queens | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Queens | det |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 Queens | nummod |
| 23 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Queens | amod |
| 24 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 divided | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | boy | this | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | boy not said here | hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lade | participle | boy not said here | with sweetmeats | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | divide | past | boy | sweetmeats | amongst the seven blind Queens; equally property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=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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