Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 19
By his side was some delicious water, and also some roast meat.
Who acts: some · What happens: be, roast · To what, where: delicious water, meat
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (some), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 side | nmod:poss |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 water | cop |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 water | det |
| 6 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 water | amod |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roast | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 roast | cc |
| 10 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 roast | advmod |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 roast | nsubj |
| 12 | roast | roast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 water | acl:relcl |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roast | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | some delicious water | by prince's side | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | roast | present | some | meat | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent meat=Patient |
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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