Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 119
Yes! yes!" he whispered, when he had reached the window-hole. "
Who acts: groaning · What happens: whisper, reach · To what, where: window hole
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 (groaning), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 whispered | discourse |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 1 Yes | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 whispered | nsubj |
| 7 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 reached | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reached | aux |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 whispered | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hole | det |
| 14 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hole | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 window | punct |
| 16 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert in a quote | past | groaning | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach in a quote | past · perfect | groaning | the window hole | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hole=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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