Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 31
II. xi.) its head with a cudgel, and the | enraged serpent stings him to | BABRIAN. death.
Who acts: |, II xi · What happens: enrage, sting · To what, where: serpent, snake, BABRIAN
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 (|, II xi), 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 | II | II | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 3 xi | nummod |
| 2 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 II | punct |
| 3 | xi | xi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stings | nsubj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 xi | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 7 head | punct |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 xi | appos |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 cudgel | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 cudgel | det |
| 10 | cudgel | cudgel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 enraged | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 enraged | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 | | det |
| 14 | | | | | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enraged | nsubj |
| 15 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 xi | conj |
| 16 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 enraged | obj |
| 17 | stings | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stings | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 BABRIAN | case |
| 20 | | | | | PUNCT | _ | 19 to | punct |
| 21 | BABRIAN | BABRIAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stings | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stings | punct |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stings | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past | the | | serpent | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus serpent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sting | present | II xi | snake | BABRIAN | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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