Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 42
The slightest stumble and they would fall, and be wetted from head to foot.
Who acts: slightest stumble · What happens: fall, wett · To what, where: head
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 (slightest stumble), 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 | 3 stumble | det |
| 2 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 stumble | amod |
| 3 | stumble | stumble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fall | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fall | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fall | aux |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wetted | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wetted | cc |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wetted | aux:pass |
| 11 | wetted | wett | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fall | parataxis |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wetted | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wetted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | would | the slightest stumble | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | wett | infinitive · passive | head | to foot | 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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