Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 138
At length they came to this famous city, and put up at a little hut that belonged to an old woman, from whom they feared no harm, and with whom, therefore, they could abide in peace and comfort.
Who acts: arrows, little hut · What happens: come, put up, belong, fear, abide · To what, where: length, little hut, harm, peace
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 (arrows, little hut), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 city | det |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 city | amod |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | conj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 hut | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hut | amod |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 belonged | nsubj |
| 18 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hut | acl:relcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 woman | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woman | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 woman | amod |
| 22 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 belonged | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 whom | punct |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 whom | case |
| 25 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 put | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 feared | nsubj |
| 27 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 whom | acl:relcl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 harm | det |
| 29 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feared | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 whom | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 whom | cc |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 whom | case |
| 33 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 came | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 whom | punct |
| 35 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 33 whom | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 abide | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 abide | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 abide | aux |
| 39 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 came | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 peace | case |
| 41 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 abide | obl |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 comfort | cc |
| 43 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 peace | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | arrows = arrow | length | to this famous city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | put up | participle | arrows = arrow not said here | a little hut | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at hut=Destination | ||||
| 3 | belong | past | a little hut | to a old woman | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fear | past | arrows = arrow | no harm | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer harm=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | abide | could | arrows = arrow | peace and comfort | 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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