Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 128
Presently they passed through a field of corn ready for the sickle, and looking like a sea of gold as it waved to and fro in the breeze.
Who acts: chiefs, gold · What happens: pass, look, wave, fro · To what, where: field, breeze
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chiefs, gold), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 passed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 corn | case |
| 8 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 field | nmod |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 corn | amod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sickle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sickle | det |
| 12 | sickle | sickle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ready | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 looking | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 looking | cc |
| 15 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | advcl |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 looking | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sea | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 waved | mark |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 waved | nsubj |
| 23 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 looking | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 waved | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fro | cc |
| 26 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 waved | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 breeze | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 breeze | det |
| 29 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fro | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | chiefs = chief | a field of corn | presently property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through field=Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | chiefs = chief not said here | like a sea of gold | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wave | past | gold | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | gold not said here | the breeze | tree rules |
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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