Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 37
Another stronger ant came up and attacked her in order to get this grain of rice.
Who acts: stronger ant · What happens: come up, attack, get · To what, where: ant, order, grain
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 (stronger ant), 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 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 ant | det |
| 2 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 ant | amod |
| 3 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 attacked | cc |
| 7 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 attacked | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attacked | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 attacked | advcl |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 grain | det |
| 14 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rice | case |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grain | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | another stronger ant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | attack | past | another stronger ant not said here | ant | order | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | |||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | another stronger ant not said here | this grain of rice | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus |
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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