Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 106
The Demon snapped them all off short, and threw them down at his feet; then came up to the Bodhisatta, who drew his sword and struck the Demon, threatening him the while.
Who acts: Demon, Bodhisatta · What happens: snap, throw down, come up, draw, strike, threaten · To what, where: girl, feet, Bodhisatta, sword, Demon, 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 (Demon, Bodhisatta), 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 Demon | det |
| 2 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snapped | nsubj |
| 3 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 snapped | obj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 snapped | obl |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | 7 short | advmod |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 all | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 threw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 threw | cc |
| 10 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 snapped | conj |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 threw | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 threw | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 threw | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 snapped | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Bodhisatta | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Bodhisatta | det |
| 22 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drew | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 drew | nsubj |
| 25 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Bodhisatta | acl:relcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sword | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drew | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 struck | cc |
| 29 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drew | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Demon | det |
| 31 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 struck | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 threatening | punct |
| 33 | threatening | threaten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 struck | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 threatening | obj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 while | det |
| 36 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 threatening | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 snapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | past | the Demon | girl | all obl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |||
| 2 | throw down | past | the Demon not said here | girl | arrow's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent they=Theme at foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | come up | past | the Demon not said here | the Bodhisatta | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bodhisatta=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | draw | past | the Bodhisatta | arrow's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 5 | strike | past | the Bodhisatta not said here | the Demon | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent demon=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | threaten | gerund | the Bodhisatta not said here | arrow | while | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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