Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 146
In the daytime she never came out of her house; she only came out at night.
Who acts: princess · What happens: not come out, come out · To what, where: house, daytime
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess), 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 | _ | 3 daytime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 daytime | det |
| 3 | daytime | daytime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 came | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 night | case |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come out | past | princess | princess's house | the daytime | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | |||
| 2 | come out | past | princess | night | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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