Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 53
He then saw a key of the Fakir's lying there; he took this key and opened the door of the Fakir's house.
Who acts: son, key · What happens: see, lie, take, open · To what, where: key, door
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 (son, key), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 key | det |
| 5 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fakir | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fakir | det |
| 8 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 key | nmod |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Fakir | case |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 key | acl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 lying | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 key | det |
| 16 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 opened | cc |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fakir | det |
| 23 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Fakir | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 door | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | son | a key of the Fakir | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer key=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | lie | gerund | a key of the Fakir not said here | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | take | past | son | this key | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | son not said here | the door of the Fakir's house | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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