Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 39
Then, just now, when we were crossing the stream, he waded through it without taking off his shoes and paijamas."
Who acts: we, stream · What happens: cross, wade, take off · To what, where: stream, cemetery, shoes
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 (we, stream), 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 | 14 waded | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 now | advmod |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 waded | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 now | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 crossing | advmod |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 crossing | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 crossing | aux |
| 9 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 waded | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stream | det |
| 11 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crossing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 crossing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waded | nsubj |
| 14 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 waded | obl |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 taking | mark |
| 18 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 waded | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 taking | compound:prt |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 shoes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 taking | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 paijamas | cc |
| 23 | paijamas | paijama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 shoes | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 waded | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 waded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | we | the stream | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wade | past | stream | cemetery | then; now | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | take off | gerund | stream not said here | stream's shoes and paijamas | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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