Indian Fairy Tales, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair., sentence 33
Mr. Batten adds that in imagining what kind of Demon the Eclipse Demon was, the Jataka writer was probably aided by recollections of some giant octopus, who has saucer eyes and a kind of hawk's beak, knobs on its "tusks," and a very variegated belly (gasteropod).
Who acts: Batten, recollections, giant octopus · What happens: add, imagine, be, aid, have, recollect · To what, where: kind, Jataka writer, saucer eyes, giant octopus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXV. the Demon With the Matted Hair.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Batten, recollections, giant octopus), 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 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Batten | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Batten | Batten | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 adds | nsubj |
| 3 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 was | mark |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 imagining | mark |
| 6 | imagining | imagine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 was | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 kind | det |
| 8 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 imagining | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Demon | case |
| 10 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 kind | nmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Demon | det |
| 12 | Eclipse | Eclipse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Demon | compound |
| 13 | Demon | Demon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Demon | appos |
| 14 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 adds | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 aided | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 writer | det |
| 17 | Jataka | Jataka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 writer | compound |
| 18 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 aided | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 aided | aux:pass |
| 20 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 21 aided | advmod |
| 21 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 adds | advcl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 recollections | case |
| 23 | recollections | recollection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 aided | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 octopus | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 octopus | det |
| 26 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 octopus | amod |
| 27 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 recollections | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 has | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 has | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 octopus | acl:relcl |
| 31 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eyes | compound |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 has | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 kind | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 kind | det |
| 35 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eyes | conj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 beak | case |
| 37 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 beak | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 hawk | case |
| 39 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 kind | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 knobs | punct |
| 41 | knobs | knob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 eyes | conj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 tusks | case |
| 43 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 44 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 45 tusks | punct |
| 45 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 knobs | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 aided | punct |
| 47 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 aided | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 belly | cc |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 belly | det |
| 50 | very | very | ADV | _ | 51 variegated | advmod |
| 51 | variegated | variegated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 belly | amod |
| 52 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 adds | conj |
| 53 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 54 gasteropod | punct |
| 54 | gasteropod | gasteropod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 belly | appos |
| 55 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 54 gasteropod | punct |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | Batten Mr. | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | imagine | gerund | what kind of Demon | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot kind=Theme | |||||
| 3 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | aid | past · passive | recollections of some giant octopus | the Jataka writer | probably property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | have | present | some giant octopus | saucer eyes and a kind of hawk's beak and knobs on kind's tusks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 6 | recollect | some giant octopus | nom recollection «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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