Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 64
The prince sat down on the bank, and being thirsty took up some of the water in his hand.
Who acts: prince · What happens: sit down, be, take up · To what, where: bank, some, hand
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 (prince), 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 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 thirsty | cop |
| 11 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 took | advcl |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 water | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hand | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | the prince | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | thirsty property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take up | past | the prince not said here | some | Prince's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent some=Value in hand=Location |
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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