Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 149
So his Granny made a nice little drumikin out of his brother's skin, with the wool inside, and Lambikin curled himself up snug and warm in the middle, and trundled away gaily.
Who acts: Granny, Lambikin · What happens: make, curl up, trundle away · To what, where: nice little drumikin, skin, Lambikin
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 (Granny, Lambikin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Granny | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Granny | Granny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 drumikin | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drumikin | amod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 drumikin | amod |
| 8 | drumikin | drumikin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 skin | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brother | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 brother | case |
| 14 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wool | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wool | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wool | det |
| 18 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | conj |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 18 wool | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 curled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 curled | cc |
| 22 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 curled | nsubj |
| 23 | curled | curl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 24 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 curled | obj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 curled | compound:prt |
| 26 | snug | snug | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 curled | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 warm | cc |
| 28 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 snug | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 middle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 middle | det |
| 31 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 warm | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 trundled | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 trundled | cc |
| 34 | trundled | trundle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 34 trundled | advmod |
| 36 | gaily | gaily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 trundled | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Lambikin's Granny | a nice little drumikin | Lambikin's brother's skin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drumikin=Product | |||
| 2 | curl up | past | Lambikin | Lambikin | snug property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | trundle away | past | Lambikin's Granny not said here | away, gaily property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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