Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 74
Suddenly he saw a great hooded snake creeping out of an ant-hill near at hand.
Who acts: labour, great hooded snake · What happens: see, creep out · To what, where: great hooded snake, ant hill, hand
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 (labour, great hooded snake), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snake | amod |
| 6 | hooded | hooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snake | amod |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 8 | creeping | creep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 snake | acl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hill | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hill | det |
| 12 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hill | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ant | punct |
| 14 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creeping | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creeping | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | labour | a great hooded snake | suddenly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | creep out | gerund | a great hooded snake not said here | a ant hill | hand | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location hill=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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