Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 76
As soon as he was dressed in them the horse said, "Hide your bundle in this grass, and I will take care of it for you.
Who acts: I · What happens: dress, say, hide, take · To what, where: boy, bundle, grass, care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 dressed | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | aux:pass |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dressed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horse | det |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dressed | obj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hide | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hide | punct |
| 14 | Hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hide | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 grass | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 grass | det |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Hide | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 take | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 take | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 take | aux |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 25 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 take | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | boy | in clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | soon property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hide in a quote | infinitive | your bundle | this grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient in grass=Location | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | future | I | care | of care; for you | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent care=Theme of it=Source for you=Beneficiary |
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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