Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 55
He looked back, and lo! there was nothing left of him but a little heap of ashes!
Who acts: son, nothing · What happens: look back, be, leave
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 (son, nothing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 was | cc |
| 6 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 was | discourse |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 lo | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 was | nsubj |
| 11 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 nothing | acl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 left | obl |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 heap | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 heap | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heap | amod |
| 17 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 nothing | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 ashes | case |
| 19 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 heap | nmod |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look back | past | son | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | of son | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of he=Initial_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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