Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 12
And even whilst he was yet speaking the ass died on the spot!
Who acts: ass · What happens: speak, die · To what, where: ass, spot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ass), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 died | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 speaking | advmod |
| 3 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 7 speaking | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 speaking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 speaking | aux |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 speaking | advmod |
| 7 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 died | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ass | det |
| 9 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 speaking | obj |
| 10 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spot | det |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 died | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | ass | the ass | yet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | die | past | the spot | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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