Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 42
The idea that they had conquered ten men and plundered all their property, now took possession of the robbers' minds.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: conquer, plunder, take, possess, mind · To what, where: idea, property, possession, minds
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 (robbers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 conquered | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 conquered | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquered | aux |
| 6 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 men | nummod |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 conquered | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 plundered | cc |
| 10 | plundered | plunder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquered | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 property | det:predet |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 property | nmod:poss |
| 13 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 plundered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 took | advmod |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 conquered | conj |
| 17 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 minds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 robbers | det |
| 20 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 minds | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 20 robbers | case |
| 22 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 possession | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | past · perfect · passive | the idea | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | plunder | past | traders's property | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent property=Source | |||||
| 3 | take | past | possession of the robbers's minds | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess | the robbers's minds | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mind | the robbers | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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