Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 119
Thus the Bodhisatta was five times snared, caught fast in five places, hanging suspended: yet he felt no fear--was not even nervous.
Who acts: Bodhisatta · What happens: be, snare, catch, suspend, feel, not be · To what, where: five times, five places, fear
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 times | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Bodhisatta | det |
| 3 | Bodhisatta | Bodhisatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 times | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 times | cop |
| 5 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 times | nummod |
| 6 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 suspended | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | snared | snare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 times | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 snared | conj |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 caught | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 places | nummod |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 snared | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 times | punct |
| 15 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 suspended | aux:pass |
| 16 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 suspended | punct |
| 18 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 20 felt | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 felt | nsubj |
| 20 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 suspended | conj |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 fear | det |
| 22 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 felt | obj |
| 23 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 nervous | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 nervous | cop |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 nervous | advmod |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 nervous | advmod |
| 27 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 felt | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 suspended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Bodhisatta | five times | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | snare | participle | five times not said here | five places | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | catch | participle | fast property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | suspend | gerund · passive | five times | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | Bodhisatta | no fear | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not is | past | Bodhisatta not said here | nervous property | tree rules |
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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