Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 36
Just then a hungry ant had carried away a grain of rice from their food, and was going along with it to her children.
What happens: carry away, go along · To what, where: hungry ant, food
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: 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 carried | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 ant | det |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ant | amod |
| 5 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | aux |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 carried | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 grain | det |
| 10 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 rice | case |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grain | nmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 food | nmod:poss |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 going | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 going | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 going | aux |
| 19 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 carried | conj |
| 20 | along | along | ADV | _ | 19 going | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 going | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 children | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 children | nmod:poss |
| 25 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 going | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past · perfect · passive | a hungry ant | girls's food | then | away property | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary grain=Value | ||
| 2 | go along | past · progressive | with food; to room's children; along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial_Location |
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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