Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 103
With this menace, he fitted to his bow an arrow dipped in deadly poison, and let fly.
Who acts: arrow · What happens: fit, dip, let · To what, where: bow, arrow, fly
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arrow), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 menace | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 menace | det |
| 3 | menace | menace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fitted | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 menace | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fitted | nsubj |
| 6 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bow | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fitted | obl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 arrow | det |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bow | nmod |
| 12 | dipped | dip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 arrow | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 poison | case |
| 14 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 poison | amod |
| 15 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dipped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fitted | conj |
| 19 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | arrow | to arrow's bow a arrow goal; with this menace | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent to bow=Goal | ||||
| 2 | dip | participle | a arrow not said here | in deadly poison | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in poison=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | arrow not said here | fly | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=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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