Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 19
Then she swallowed him once more and returned to her stable.
Who acts: child · What happens: swallow, return · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 swallowed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallowed | nsubj |
| 3 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swallowed | obj |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 more | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 swallowed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 returned | cc |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swallowed | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stable | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stable | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 returned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | past | child | Suri | then | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 2 | return | past | child not said here | to child's stable result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to stable=Result |
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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