Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 104
As soon as she had gone back to the four Queens (who gave her a great many rupees), the dog went to the hole in which she had put the box, took the box out, and opened it.
Who acts: dog · What happens: go back, give, go, put, take out, open · To what, where: great many rupees, dog, 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 (dog), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 gone | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Queens | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Queens | det |
| 10 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Queens | nummod |
| 11 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gone | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gave | nsubj |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | parataxis |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 rupees | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rupees | amod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rupees | amod |
| 19 | rupees | rupee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gave | obj |
| 20 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 19 rupees | punct |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dog | det |
| 23 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 gave | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 hole | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hole | det |
| 27 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 put | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 put | aux |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 hole | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 box | det |
| 34 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 took | punct |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | parataxis |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 box | det |
| 38 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 36 took | compound:prt |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 opened | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 opened | cc |
| 42 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 took | conj |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 opened | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past · perfect | dog | to the four Queens result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to queen=Result | ||||
| 2 | give | past | a great many rupees | dog | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient rupee=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the dog | the hole | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hole=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | put | past · perfect | dog | the box | the hole | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in which=Destination | |||
| 5 | take out | past | the box | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||||
| 6 | open | past | box | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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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