Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 17
The lion gets well, and one day was eating a buffalo he had killed.
Who acts: lion, buffalo · What happens: get, eat, kill · To what, where: buffalo, bone
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 (lion, buffalo), 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 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eating | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eating | cc |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 day | nummod |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eating | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eating | aux |
| 10 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 gets | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 buffalo | det |
| 12 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eating | obj |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 killed | aux |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 buffalo | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the lion | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · progressive | the lion not said here | a buffalo | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Patient | |||
| 3 | kill | past · perfect · passive | a buffalo not said here | bone | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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