Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 10
So Rasalu took some of the bones lying about, and fashioned them into dice, and these he put into his pocket.
Who acts: Rasalu, bones, these · What happens: take, lie, put · To what, where: some, dice, pocket
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu, bones, these), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bones | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bones | det |
| 7 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 bones | acl |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 lying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fashioned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fashioned | cc |
| 12 | fashioned | fashioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fashioned | nsubj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 dice | case |
| 15 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 put | cc |
| 18 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 put | nsubj |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 put | nsubj |
| 20 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 put | obl | ||
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Rasalu | some | dice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent some=Theme into dice=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the bones not said here | about property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | put | past | these | Rasalu's pocket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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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