Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 23
Next day he |became rich through it.----One finds a piece of gold in the |day he struck the serpent, which bowl, and he receives this each |disappeared, and with it the day after offering the libation.
Who acts: man, Next day, One, day · What happens: |, become, find, strike, receive, offer · To what, where: Next day, piece, serpent, each, libation
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Next day, One, day), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 became | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 | | nsubj |
| 4 | | | | | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 became | xcomp |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rich | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
| 10 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 12 finds | punct |
| 11 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 finds | nsubj |
| 12 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 became | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 day | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 day | det |
| 19 | | | | | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 day | amod |
| 20 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 finds | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 day | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 serpent | det |
| 24 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bowl | punct |
| 26 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 27 bowl | det |
| 27 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 serpent | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 receives | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 receives | cc |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 receives | nsubj |
| 31 | receives | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 finds | conj |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 each | nsubj |
| 33 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 receives | obl |
| 34 | | | | | ADV | _ | 35 disappeared | advmod |
| 35 | disappeared | disappeared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 each | acl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 it | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 it | cc |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 finds | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 day | det |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 it | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 43 offering | mark |
| 43 | offering | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 day | acl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 libation | det |
| 45 | libation | libation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 offering | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | | | past | man | Next day not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | Next day | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | present | One | a piece of gold | day | with field | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Topic | ||
| 4 | strike | past | man | the serpent and which bowl | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | receive | present | man | each | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | offer | gerund | the day not said here | the libation | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent libation=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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