Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 84
Next day he went again and found a denar, so he thought to himself: "This ant-hill is surely full of golden denars; I'll kill the serpent, and take them all for myself."
Who acts: son, ant hill · What happens: go, find, think, be, kill, take · To what, where: denar, son, serpent, respects · 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 (son, ant hill), 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 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 found | cc |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 denar | det |
| 9 | denar | denar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 himself | case |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 thought | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 18 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 hill | det |
| 19 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hill | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 ant | punct |
| 21 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 full | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 full | cop |
| 23 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 24 full | advmod |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 denars | case |
| 26 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 denars | amod |
| 27 | denars | denar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 full | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 kill | punct |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 kill | nsubj |
| 30 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 kill | aux |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 serpent | det |
| 33 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kill | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 take | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 take | cc |
| 36 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 kill | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 take | obj |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 myself | case |
| 40 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 take | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 kill | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | son | again; day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | find | past | son not said here | a denar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denar=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | son | son | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | this ant hill | of golden denars; full, surely property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | future | son | the serpent | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take in a quote | infinitive | son not said here | respects | for son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for myself=Beneficiary |
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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