Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 81
Next morning he came and looked, and he saw a gold denar in the bowl, and from that time onward every day the same thing occurred: he gave milk to the serpent and found a gold denar.
Who acts: labour, same thing · What happens: come, look, see, occur, give, find · To what, where: gold denar, bowl, milk, serpent
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, same thing), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 looked | cc |
| 6 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 denar | det |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 denar | compound |
| 13 | denar | denar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 bowl | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bowl | det |
| 16 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 denar | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 occurred | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 occurred | cc |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 occurred | obl |
| 22 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 21 time | advmod |
| 23 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 occurred | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thing | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 thing | amod |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 occurred | nsubj |
| 28 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 gave | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 gave | nsubj |
| 31 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 occurred | parataxis |
| 32 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 serpent | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 serpent | det |
| 35 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 gave | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 found | cc |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 gave | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 denar | det |
| 39 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 denar | compound |
| 40 | denar | denar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | labour | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | past | labour not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | labour | a gold denar | the bowl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer denar=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | occur | past | the same thing | day; time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | give | past | labour | milk | the serpent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to serpent=Recipient | |||
| 6 | find | past | labour not said here | a gold denar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denar=Topic |
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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