Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 43
After this, Rasalu strode on fifteen paces, till he came to the seventy drums, that every one who came to play chaupur with the King had to beat in turn; and he beat them so loudly that he broke them all.
Who acts: Rasalu, that, one, King · What happens: stride, come, one, play, have, beat · To what, where: seventy drums, chaupur, turn, drums
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, that, one, King), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 strode | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 strode | nsubj |
| 5 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 paces | case |
| 7 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 paces | nummod |
| 8 | paces | pace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 strode | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 came | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strode | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 drums | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 drums | det |
| 15 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drums | amod |
| 16 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 one | punct |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 one | nsubj |
| 19 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 one | det |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drums | appos |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 came | nsubj |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 one | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 play | mark |
| 24 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 came | xcomp |
| 25 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 play | obj |
| 26 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 29 had | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 had | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 play | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 beat | mark |
| 31 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 had | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 turn | case |
| 33 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beat | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 beat | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 beat | cc |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 beat | nsubj |
| 37 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strode | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 beat | obj |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 loudly | advmod |
| 40 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 37 beat | advmod |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 broke | mark |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 broke | nsubj |
| 43 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 beat | advcl |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 broke | obj |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride | past | Rasalu | after this | on fifteen paces | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pace=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | come | past | Rasalu | the seventy drums | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to drum=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | one | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | come | past | every one | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | every one not said here | chaupur | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | past | the King | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | beat | to-infinitive | the King not said here | turn | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | ||||
| 8 | beat | past | Rasalu | drums = drum | loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 9 | break | past | Rasalu | drums = drum | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient |
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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