Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 128
This was done, and in a little while the fakir and his disciple and the princess were left alone in the graveyard.
What happens: do, leave · To what, where: This, fakir, little
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: 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 left | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 left | cc |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 little | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 left | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 19 left | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fakir | det |
| 11 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 disciple | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 disciple | nmod:poss |
| 14 | disciple | disciple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fakir | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 princess | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fakir | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 left | aux:pass |
| 19 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | parataxis |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 left | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 graveyard | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 graveyard | det |
| 23 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 left | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | the fakir and fakir's disciple and the princess | a little | in the graveyard; alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in little=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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