Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 66
These were entirely humbled now, and rolled on the ground like three bags of rice!
What happens: humble, roll · To what, where: These, ground
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: 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 humbled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 humbled | aux:pass |
| 3 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 4 humbled | advmod |
| 4 | humbled | humble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 humbled | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rolled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rolled | cc |
| 8 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 humbled | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rolled | obl |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 bags | case |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 bags | nummod |
| 14 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rolled | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rice | case |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bags | nmod |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 humbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humble | past · passive | These | now | entirely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | roll | participle | the ground | like three bags of rice | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory |
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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