Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 17
He played and ran about for an hour to her great delight, and she talked to him and caressed him.
Who acts: Suri, child · What happens: play, run about, talk, caress, delight · To what, where: Suri
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Suri, child), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 ran | cc |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 played | conj |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 hour | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hour | det |
| 8 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 delight | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 delight | nmod:poss |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 delight | amod |
| 12 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 talked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 talked | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 talked | nsubj |
| 16 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 played | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 talked | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caressed | cc |
| 20 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 talked | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 caressed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Suri | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | run about | past | Suri not said here | hour | to child's great delight result; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to delight=Result | |||
| 3 | talk | past | child | Suri | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | caress | past | child not said here | Suri | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | delight | child | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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