Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 97
On the second night the same thing happened, and on the third night too.
Who acts: same thing · What happens: happen
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 (same thing), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 night | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 night | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 night | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 night | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 night | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 night | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 night | amod |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 night | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
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