Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 9
"Long might the ass, Clad in a lion's skin, Have fed on the barley green.
What happens: feed · To what, where: Long ass, barley
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ass | punct |
| 2 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ass | amod |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ass | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ass | det |
| 5 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Clad | punct |
| 7 | Clad | Clad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ass | appos |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 skin | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 lion | case |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Clad | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ass | punct |
| 14 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 fed | aux |
| 15 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 barley | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 barley | det |
| 18 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fed | obl |
| 19 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fed | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 fed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the Long ass | the barley | green property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient |
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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