Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 127
Once upon a time there was a wee wee Lambikin, who frolicked about on his little tottery legs, and enjoyed himself amazingly.
Who acts: wee wee · What happens: be, frolic, enjoy · To what, where: little tottery legs, wee
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 (wee wee), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wee | det |
| 8 | wee | wee | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wee | amod |
| 9 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wee | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 frolicked | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 frolicked | nsubj |
| 13 | frolicked | frolic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wee | acl:relcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 frolicked | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 legs | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 legs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legs | amod |
| 18 | tottery | tottery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 legs | amod |
| 19 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 frolicked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 enjoyed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 enjoyed | cc |
| 22 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 was | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 enjoyed | obj |
| 24 | amazingly | amazingly | ADV | _ | 22 enjoyed | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a wee wee | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | frolic | past | a wee wee | Lambikin's little tottery legs | about property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | enjoy | past | a wee wee not said here | wee | amazingly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
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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