Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 110
When the Bodhisatta saw that this had stuck fast, he addressed the Demon. "
Who acts: Bodhisatta · What happens: see, stick, address · To what, where: this, Demon · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bodhisatta | det |
| 3 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 addressed | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 stuck | mark |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stuck | aux |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 stuck | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 addressed | nsubj |
| 12 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Demon | det |
| 14 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 addressed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 addressed | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Bodhisatta | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | stick | past · perfect · passive | this | fast property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | address | past | Bodhisatta | the Demon | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demon=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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