Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 111
And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Raja Rasalu.
Who acts: headless corpse · What happens: arise, sit · To what, where: Raja
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headless corpse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 arose | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 arose | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corpse | det |
| 4 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 corpse | amod |
| 5 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | conj |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 Raja | case |
| 10 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 11 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Raja | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the headless corpse | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the headless corpse not said here | Raja | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside raja=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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