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Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 7

But when the villagers knew the creature to be an ass, they beat him till his bones broke; and, carrying off the lion's skin, went away.

Who acts: villagers, bones, carrying · What happens: know, be, beat, break, carry off, go away · To what, where: creature, ass, skin · 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 (villagers, bones, carrying), 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

ccadvmoddetnsubjadvcldetobjmarkcopdetccomppunctnsubjobjmarknmod:possnsubjadvclpunctccpunctcsubjcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctparataxisadvmodpunctrootButCCONJwhenADVtheDETvillagersNOUNknewVERBtheDETcreatureNOUNtoPARTbeAUXanDETassNOUN,PUNCTtheyPRONbeatVERBhimPRONtillSCONJhisPRONbonesNOUNbrokeVERB;PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCTcarryingVERBoffADPtheDETlionNOUN'sPARTskinNOUN,PUNCTwentVERBawayADV.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_14 beatcc
2whenwhenADVPronType=Int5 knewadvmod
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 villagersdet
4villagersvillagerNOUNNumber=Plur5 knewnsubj
5knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 beatadvcl
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 creaturedet
7creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing5 knewobj
8totoPART_11 assmark
9bebeAUXVerbForm=Inf11 asscop
10anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 assdet
11assassNOUNNumber=Sing5 knewccomp
12,,PUNCT_5 knewpunct
13theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs14 beatnsubj
14beatbeatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
15himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 beatobj
16tilltillSCONJ_19 brokemark
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 bonesnmod:poss
18bonesboneNOUNNumber=Plur19 brokensubj
19brokebreakVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 beatadvcl
20;;PUNCT_30 wentpunct
21andandCCONJ_30 wentcc
22,,PUNCT_23 carryingpunct
23carryingcarryVERBVerbForm=Ger30 wentcsubj
24offoffADP_28 skincase
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 liondet
26lionlionNOUNNumber=Sing28 skinnmod:poss
27's'sPART_26 lioncase
28skinskinNOUNNumber=Sing23 carryingobl
29,,PUNCT_23 carryingpunct
30wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 beatparataxis
31awayawayADV_30 wentadvmod
32..PUNCT_14 beatpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1knowpastthe villagersthe creaturevn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus
2is ato-infinitivea asstree rules
3beatpresentvillagers = villagerassvn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme
4breakpastass's bonesvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5carry offgerundthe lion's skinvn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme
6go awaypastcarryingaway propertyvn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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