Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 54
Then her playfellows used to laugh at her and mock her.
Who acts: playfellows · What happens: use, laugh, mock · To what, where: gardener
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 (playfellows), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 used | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 playfellows | nmod:poss |
| 3 | playfellows | playfellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 laugh | mark |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laugh | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mock | cc |
| 10 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 laugh | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 mock | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | gardener's playfellows | then | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | laugh | to-infinitive | gardener's playfellows not said here | at gardener | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mock | infinitive | gardener's playfellows not said here | gardener | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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