Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 104
The arrow stuck fast in the Demon's hair.
What happens: stick · To what, where: arrow, hair
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 arrow | det |
| 2 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 arrow | acl |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stuck | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hair | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Demon | det |
| 7 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hair | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Demon | case |
| 9 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stuck | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | participle | the arrow not said here | the Demon's hair | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in hair=Destination |
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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