Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 105
Then he shot and shot, till he had shot away fifty arrows; and they all stuck in the Demon's hair.
Who acts: arrow · What happens: shoot · To what, where: arrow
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shot | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shot | cc |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shot | punct |
| 7 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 shot | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shot | aux |
| 10 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shot | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fifty | advmod |
| 12 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 arrows | nummod |
| 13 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shot | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 stuck | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stuck | cc |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stuck | nsubj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 stuck | det |
| 18 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shot | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 hair | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Demon | det |
| 21 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hair | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Demon | case |
| 23 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stuck | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | arrow | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | arrow not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | arrow | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination arrow=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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