Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 26
In India itself the collection of stories in frames went on and still goes on.
Who acts: collection · What happens: go on · To what, where: India
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (collection), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 India | case |
| 2 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 India | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 collection | det |
| 5 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stories | case |
| 7 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 collection | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 frames | case |
| 9 | frames | frame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stories | nmod |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 goes | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 goes | advmod |
| 14 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 goes | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the collection of stories in frames | India material | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in india=Location | ||||
| 2 | go on | present | the collection of stories in frames not said here | still | vn function-105.2.1 «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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