Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 102
There she dug a hole, made the fastenings of the box sure, and put the box into the hole, although the child in it was still alive.
Who acts: palace, child · What happens: dig, make, put, be · To what, where: hole, box
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, child), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 dug | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dug | nsubj |
| 3 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dug | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dug | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fastenings | det |
| 9 | fastenings | fastening | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 box | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 box | det |
| 12 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastenings | nmod |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 put | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 put | cc |
| 16 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dug | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 box | det |
| 18 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hole | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hole | det |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 put | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 alive | punct |
| 23 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 30 alive | mark |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 alive | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 child | nmod |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 alive | cop |
| 29 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 alive | advmod |
| 30 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dug | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past | palace | a hole | there | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 2 | make | past | palace not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | palace not said here | the box | the hole | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent box=Goal | |||
| 4 | is | past | the child in box | still | alive property | tree rules |
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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