Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 78
When he had made up his mind, he got some milk, poured it into a bowl, and went to the ant-hill, and said aloud: "O Guardian of this Field! all this while I did not know that you dwelt here.
Who acts: labour, you · What happens: make up, get, pour, go, say, not know · To what, where: mind, milk, bowl, ant hill, this · 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 (labour, you), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 made | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 got | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 made | compound:prt |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 milk | det |
| 12 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 poured | punct |
| 14 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 poured | obj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 bowl | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bowl | det |
| 18 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 poured | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 poured | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hill | det |
| 24 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hill | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ant | punct |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 got | conj |
| 30 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 29 said | advmod |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 Guardian | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Guardian | punct |
| 33 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 34 Guardian | case |
| 34 | Guardian | Guardian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | ccomp |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Field | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 Field | det |
| 37 | Field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Guardian | nmod |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 Guardian | punct |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 this | det:predet |
| 40 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 said | obj |
| 41 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 45 know | mark |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 know | nsubj |
| 43 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 know | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 know | advmod |
| 45 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 said | ccomp |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 dwelt | mark |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 dwelt | nsubj |
| 48 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 know | ccomp |
| 49 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 48 dwelt | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past · perfect | labour | labour's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | get | past | labour | some milk | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pour | past | milk | a bowl | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into bowl=Destination | ||||
| 4 | go | past | the ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | |||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | labour not said here | this | aloud property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | labour | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | dwell in a quote | past | you | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | mind | labour | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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