Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 116
On seeing this I was filled with anger, and beat her back with a shovel, which lay on the fire at the time.
Who acts: shovel · What happens: see, fill, beat, lie · To what, where: this, I, back, fire
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shovel), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 filled | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 filled | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 filled | aux:pass |
| 6 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 anger | case |
| 8 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 filled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beat | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 beat | cc |
| 11 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 filled | conj |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 shovel | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shovel | det |
| 16 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beat | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lay | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lay | nsubj |
| 19 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 shovel | acl:relcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 fire | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fire | det |
| 22 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lay | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | I | with anger | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with anger=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | beat | past | anger's back | with a shovel | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent back=Patient with shovel=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | lie | past | a shovel | the fire | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fire=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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