Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 14
Nevertheless, Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, snatched it from the fire and set it at liberty.
Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: snatch, set · To what, where: chaupur, fire, liberty
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), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 11 snatched | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 snatched | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearted | punct |
| 5 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearted | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tender | punct |
| 7 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rasalu | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strong | cc |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rasalu | punct |
| 11 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 snatched | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snatched | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 snatched | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 liberty | case |
| 20 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | Rasalu | chaupur | the fire | nevertheless property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from fire=Source | ||
| 2 | set | past | Rasalu not said here | chaupur | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at liberty=Destination |
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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