Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 135
And one of the arrows killed the woman, so they had to leave her behind.
Who acts: one, arrows · What happens: kill, have, leave · To what, where: woman
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 (one, arrows), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 killed | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 arrows | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arrows | det |
| 5 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 6 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 killed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 killed | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 had | xcomp |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 14 leave | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | one of the arrows | the woman | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | arrows = arrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leave | to-infinitive | arrows = arrow not said here | woman | behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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