Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 8
Then the hawker came; and seeing the ass fallen into so bad a plight, pronounced the Second Verse:
Who acts: hawker, seeing · What happens: come, see, fall, pronounce · To what, where: ass, Second Verse
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 (hawker, seeing), 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 came | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hawker | det |
| 3 | hawker | hawker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 pronounced | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 pronounced | cc |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 pronounced | csubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ass | det |
| 9 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seeing | obj |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ass | acl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bad | case |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 bad | advmod |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fallen | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 plight | det |
| 15 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bad | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 seeing | punct |
| 17 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Verse | det |
| 19 | Second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 Verse | amod |
| 20 | Verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pronounced | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the hawker | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the ass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | fall | participle | the ass not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pronounce | past | seeing | the Second Verse | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verse=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/22/8/