Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 75
So there he lay, from early morn, groaning and making a great noise.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: lie, groan, make · To what, where: early morn, great noise
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 lay | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 morn | punct |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 morn | case |
| 7 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morn | amod |
| 8 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 groaning | punct |
| 10 | groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 lay | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 making | cc |
| 12 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 groaning | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 noise | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 noise | amod |
| 15 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 making | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Crow | early morn; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | groan | gerund | Crow not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Crow not said here | a great noise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product |
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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