Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 33
The father pursued the usual brings the libation of |serpent with an axe, and struck milk (in the hope of getting the |off part of its tail.
Who acts: father, usual, hope · What happens: pursue, bring, strike, get · To what, where: libation, milk, hope, |
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 (father, usual, hope), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 usual | det |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 brings | nsubj |
| 6 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 libation | det |
| 8 | libation | libation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brings | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 serpent | case |
| 10 | | | | | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 serpent | nmod:poss |
| 11 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 libation | nmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 axe | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 axe | det |
| 14 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 serpent | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 struck | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 struck | cc |
| 17 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | conj |
| 18 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | obj |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 22 hope | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 hope | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hope | det |
| 22 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 struck | obl |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 getting | mark |
| 24 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 hope | acl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 | | det |
| 26 | | | | | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obj |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 part | case |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 getting | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 tail | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 tail | nmod:poss |
| 31 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 part | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring | present | the usual | the libation of |'s serpent with a axe | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent libation=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strike | past | the father not said here | milk | the hope | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | |||
| 4 | get | gerund | the hope not said here | the | | off part of |'s tail | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |=Stimulus |
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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