Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 89
On his way he came to a forest inhabited by the Demon with the Matted Hair.
Who acts: son · What happens: come, inhabit · To what, where: way, forest
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 (son), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 forest | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Demon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Demon | det |
| 12 | Demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inhabited | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 Hair | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Hair | det |
| 15 | Matted | Matted | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Hair | compound |
| 16 | Hair | Hair | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Demon | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | son | son's way | to a forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | inhabit | participle | a forest not said here | by the Demon with the Matted Hair | 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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