Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 117
While running away from me her necklace got loose and dropped.
Who acts: necklace · What happens: run away, get, drop
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 (necklace), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 running | mark |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 got | advcl |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 running | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 running | obl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 necklace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | nsubj |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 8 got | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 dropped | cc |
| 11 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | gerund | anger's necklace not said here | from me; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from i=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | get | past | anger's necklace | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | drop | past | anger's necklace not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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