Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 99
Every day he looked at the tiger's foot, and the third day it was quite healed.
Who acts: son · What happens: look, heal · To what, where: foot
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 (son), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tiger | det |
| 7 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 tiger | case |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 healed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 healed | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 day | det |
| 13 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 healed | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 healed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 healed | aux:pass |
| 17 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 18 healed | advmod |
| 18 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 looked | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | son | day | at the tiger's foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | |||
| 2 | heal | past · passive | foot | day | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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