Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 63
The source was a beautiful lake, which at that time was covered with the magnificent lotus flower and other water plants.
Who acts: source · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: beautiful lake
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 (source), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 source | det |
| 2 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lake | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lake | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lake | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lake | amod |
| 6 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 covered | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 covered | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 covered | aux:pass |
| 13 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 lake | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 flower | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 flower | det |
| 16 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 flower | amod |
| 17 | lotus | lotus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 flower | compound |
| 18 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 covered | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plants | cc |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plants | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plants | compound |
| 22 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 flower | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the source | a beautiful lake | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | a beautiful lake | time | with the magnificent lotus flower and other water plants | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: which=Destination with flower=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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