Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 118
Then stretch the hair down the edge of the wax hatchet's blade."
Who acts: you · What happens: stretch · To what, where: hair
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 (you), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 stretch | advmod |
| 2 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hair | det |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretch | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 edge | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 edge | det |
| 7 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretch | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 blade | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hatchet | det |
| 10 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hatchet | compound |
| 11 | hatchet | hatchet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blade | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 hatchet | case |
| 13 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 edge | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stretch | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 stretch | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | imperative | you not said here | the hair | then | down the edge of the wax hatchet's blade | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=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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