Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 85
So next day, while he was giving the milk to the serpent, the Brahman's son struck it on the head with a cudgel.
Who acts: son · What happens: give, strike · To what, where: milk, serpent, head
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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 19 struck | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 giving | punct |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 giving | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 giving | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 giving | aux |
| 8 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 day | acl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 milk | det |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 serpent | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 serpent | det |
| 13 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 giving | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Brahman | det |
| 16 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Brahman | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | nsubj |
| 19 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 struck | obj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 head | det |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 cudgel | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cudgel | det |
| 26 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 struck | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · progressive | son | the milk | the serpent | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme to serpent=Recipient | |||
| 2 | strike | past | the Brahman's son | milk | the head | day | with a cudgel | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with cudgel=Instrument |
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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