Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 17
It happened that the woman had fainted, and that there was only a very slight wound in her breast where the arrow had grazed.
Who acts: It, woman · What happens: happen, faint, be, graze · To what, where: slight wound, breast, arrow
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 (It, woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 fainted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fainted | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fainted | aux |
| 7 | fainted | faint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 happened | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wound | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wound | cc |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 was | mark |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 was | expl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wound | cop |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 wound | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 wound | det |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 slight | advmod |
| 16 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wound | amod |
| 17 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fainted | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 breast | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 breast | nmod:poss |
| 20 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wound | nmod |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 grazed | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 arrow | det |
| 23 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grazed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 grazed | aux |
| 25 | grazed | graze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 breast | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | faint | past · perfect | the woman | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the woman not said here | a slight wound | woman's breast | tree rules | |||
| 4 | graze | past · perfect · passive | the arrow | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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