Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 9
Accordingly he ran out and killed the poor dog, when the letter fell out of its collar.
Who acts: end, letter · What happens: run out, kill, fall · To what, where: poor dog, collar
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 (end, letter), 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 | Accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 ran | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 killed | cc |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dog | amod |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fell | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 fell | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 letter | det |
| 13 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 collar | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 collar | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 collar | nmod:poss |
| 18 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run out | past | end | accordingly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | past | end not said here | the poor dog | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the letter | dog's collar | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out collar=Location |
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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