Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 47
He clenched his sword with firm grip, and lay down on his bed, intending to keep awake all the night and see what would happen.
Who acts: prince · What happens: clench, lay down, intend, keep, see, happen · To what, where: sword, bed · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clenched | nsubj |
| 2 | clenched | clench | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clenched | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grip | case |
| 6 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grip | amod |
| 7 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 clenched | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lay | cc |
| 10 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 clenched | parataxis |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 lay | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 bed | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 intending | punct |
| 16 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 lay | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 keep | mark |
| 18 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 intending | xcomp |
| 19 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keep | xcomp |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 night | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 keep | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 see | cc |
| 24 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 keep | conj |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 happen | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 happen | aux |
| 27 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 see | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clenched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clench | past | prince | prince's sword | with firm grip | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Patient | |||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | prince's bed | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on bed=Destination | ||||
| 3 | intend | gerund | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | night | awake property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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