Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 50
He laid hold of his sword, and when the snakes reached his bed he struck at them and killed them.
Who acts: prince, snakes · What happens: lay, reach, strike, kill, hold · To what, where: hold, bed, snakes, sword
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, snakes), 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 laid | nsubj |
| 2 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 laid | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sword | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sword | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 struck | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 struck | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 snakes | det |
| 11 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 struck | advcl |
| 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 | 12 reached | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 struck | nsubj |
| 16 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laid | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 struck | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 killed | cc |
| 20 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 struck | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 killed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | past | prince | hold of prince's sword | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the snakes | prince's bed | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | prince | at snakes = snake | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | prince not said here | snakes = snake | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | prince's sword | 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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