Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 6
One morning the two travellers noticed the old woman's most careful toilette: how careful she was in the arrangement of her hair and the set of her kasabah and puts.
Who acts: two travellers, woman · What happens: notice, be, put · To what, where: careful toilette, arrangement
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 (two travellers, woman), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 travellers | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 travellers | nummod |
| 5 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 noticed | nsubj |
| 6 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 woman | amod |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 toilette | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 woman | case |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 careful | advmod |
| 12 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toilette | amod |
| 13 | toilette | toilette | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 noticed | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 careful | punct |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 careful | advmod |
| 16 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toilette | appos |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 arrangement | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 arrangement | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 arrangement | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 arrangement | det |
| 21 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 careful | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hair | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hair | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrangement | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 set | det |
| 27 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 arrangement | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kasabah | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 kasabah | nmod:poss |
| 30 | kasabah | kasabah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 puts | cc |
| 32 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 arrangement | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the two travellers | the old woman's careful toilette | morning | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer toilette=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | woman | the arrangement and the set of woman's kasabah | of woman's hair | tree rules | |||
| 3 | put | present | woman not said here | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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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