Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 41
The royal elephants have got loose and are running about wildly.
Who acts: royal elephants · What happens: get, run about
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 (royal elephants), 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 | 3 elephants | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 elephants | amod |
| 3 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 running | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 running | aux |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 loose | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 wildly | advmod |
| 11 | wildly | wildly | ADV | _ | 9 running | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | the royal elephants | loose property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | run about | present · progressive | the royal elephants not said here | wildly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP 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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