Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 89
But after a time, he took the bowl of milk, went to the ant-hill, and praised the serpent with a loud voice.
Who acts: son · What happens: take, go, praise · To what, where: bowl, ant hill, 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 took | cc |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bowl | det |
| 9 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 milk | case |
| 11 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bowl | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 16 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hill | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ant | punct |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 praised | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 praised | cc |
| 21 | praised | praise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 serpent | det |
| 23 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 praised | obj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 voice | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 voice | det |
| 26 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 voice | amod |
| 27 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 praised | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | son | the bowl of milk | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | son not said here | the ant hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | praise | past | son not said here | the serpent | with a loud voice | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=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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