Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 5
And these two came face to face in a low cart-track with precipitous sides, where there was no space for a chariot to get out of the way!
Who acts: two, space · What happens: come, be, get out · To what, where: low cart track, way
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 (two, space), 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 | _ | 4 came | cc |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 face | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 track | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 track | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 track | amod |
| 11 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 track | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 cart | punct |
| 13 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 15 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sides | amod |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 was | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 was | advmod |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 was | expl |
| 20 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 space | det |
| 22 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 was | nsubj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 chariot | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 chariot | det |
| 25 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 space | nmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 get | mark |
| 27 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 chariot | acl |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 way | det |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 get | obl |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | this two | a low cart track | with precipitous sides | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in track=Location | |||
| 2 | be | past | no space for a chariot | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | no space for a chariot not said here | the way | tree rules |
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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