Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 89
Then, while she is asleep, heat the shovel and mark her back with it.
Who acts: princess, you · What happens: be, heat, mark · To what, where: shovel, back
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 (princess, you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 heat | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 asleep | mark |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asleep | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asleep | cop |
| 6 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heat | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 asleep | punct |
| 8 | heat | heat | VERB | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shovel | det |
| 10 | shovel | shovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mark | cc |
| 12 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 heat | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mark | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 mark | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | princess | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | heat | imperative | you not said here | the shovel | then | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent shovel=Patient | |||
| 3 | mark | infinitive | you not said here | princess's back | with shovel | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Destination with it=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/28/89/