Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 112
There he brought up the child out of his stomach (the child was now a year old), and caressed and petted him a great deal, and was made very happy by his great beauty.
Who acts: Boy, child, great beauty · What happens: bring up, be, caress, pet, make · To what, where: child, stomach, Boy
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 (Boy, child, great beauty), 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 brought | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 child | det |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 stomach | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 stomach | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 10 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 child | det |
| 13 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 old | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 old | cop |
| 15 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 old | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 year | det |
| 17 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 old | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stomach | amod |
| 19 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 old | punct |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caressed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 caressed | cc |
| 22 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 petted | cc |
| 24 | petted | pet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 caressed | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 petted | obj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 deal | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 deal | amod |
| 28 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 petted | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | aux:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 33 | very | very | ADV | _ | 34 happy | advmod |
| 34 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 made | xcomp |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 beauty | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 37 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 beauty | amod |
| 38 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | Boy | the child | Boy's stomach; there | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the child | now; year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | caress | past | Boy not said here | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pet | past | Boy not said here | Boy | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | past · passive | Boy's great beauty | happy property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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