Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 77
These words roused some recollection in Rasalu's mind, and when, just at this moment, the kitten in his pocket began to struggle, he remembered all about the warning, and the dice made from dead men's bones.
Who acts: words, moment, Rasalu · What happens: rouse, begin, struggle, remember, make, mind · To what, where: recollection, mind, dice, bones
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 (words, moment, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 words | acl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 recollection | det |
| 5 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 7 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rasalu | case |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 remembered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 remembered | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 began | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moment | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 moment | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kitten | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kitten | det |
| 20 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | appos |
| 21 | in | in | 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 kitten | nmod | ||
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 remembered | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 struggle | mark |
| 26 | struggle | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 remembered | nsubj |
| 29 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 warning | advmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 warning | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 warning | det |
| 33 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remembered | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 made | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dice | det |
| 37 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 made | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 remembered | parataxis |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 bones | case |
| 40 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 men | amod |
| 41 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 bones | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 men | case |
| 43 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 made | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle | this words not said here | some recollection | Rasalu's mind | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recollection=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | this moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | struggle | to-infinitive | this moment not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remember | past | this words | about the warning | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | participle · passive | the dice | dead men's bones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from bone=Material | ||||
| 6 | mind | Rasalu | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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