Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 41
But as it swung back again, Rasalu, standing there in his shining armour, drew his sharp sword and severed the ropes.
Who acts: swing · What happens: swing back, stand, shine, draw, sever · To what, where: Rasalu, shining armour, sharp sword, ropes
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 (swing), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 swung | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rasalu | punct |
| 8 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 standing | punct |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 swung | advcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 standing | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 armour | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 armour | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 armour | amod |
| 15 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sword | amod |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 severed | cc |
| 22 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ropes | det |
| 24 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 severed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing back | past | swing | Rasalu | again | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | swing not said here | Rasalu's shining armour; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armour=Location | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | draw | past | Rasalu's sharp sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sever | past | the ropes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme |
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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