Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 1
As he grew older he enlarged the hole, and slipped out two or three times every day to play with the little nobles in the town.
Who acts: he · What happens: grow, enlarge, slip out, play · To what, where: hole
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 grew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enlarged | advcl |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 enlarged | nsubj |
| 6 | enlarged | enlarge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hole | det |
| 8 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 enlarged | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slipped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 slipped | cc |
| 11 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 enlarged | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 slipped | compound:prt |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 three | cc |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 two | conj |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 slipped | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slipped | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 play | mark |
| 20 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 day | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 nobles | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 nobles | det |
| 23 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 nobles | amod |
| 24 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 play | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 town | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 town | det |
| 27 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nobles | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 enlarged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | he | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enlarge | past | he | the hole | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | ||||
| 3 | slip out | past | he not said here | day; time | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | play | to-infinitive | he not said here | with the little nobles in the town | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with noble=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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