Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 107
My bed helped me to beat his kettle-drum.
Who acts: bed, me · What happens: help, beat · To what, where: me, kettle drum
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed, me), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bed | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 helped | nsubj |
| 3 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 helped | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beat | mark |
| 6 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 helped | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 drum | nmod:poss |
| 8 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drum | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 kettle | punct |
| 10 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beat | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 helped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | past | My bed | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | to-infinitive | me not said here | son's kettle drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/8/107/