Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 116
Seated in a room, with the door fastened on the outside, the two travellers bemoaned their fate.
Who acts: two travellers, travellers · What happens: seat, fasten, bemoan, fate · To what, where: room, door, fate
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two travellers, travellers), 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 | Seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 room | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seated | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 door | punct |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | nmod |
| 9 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 door | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 outside | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 outside | det |
| 12 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fastened | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bemoaned | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 travellers | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 travellers | nummod |
| 16 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bemoaned | nsubj |
| 17 | bemoaned | bemoan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 room | acl:relcl |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 fate | nmod:poss |
| 19 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bemoaned | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | a room with the door | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location | |||||
| 2 | fasten | participle | the door not said here | on the outside | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: agent=Patient on outside=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | bemoan | past | the two travellers | travellers's fate | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fate | travellers = traveller | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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