Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 65
The Raja's son lay down and slept, and the ants crushed out the oil for him.
Who acts: son, ants · What happens: lie down, sleep, crush out · To what, where: oil
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 (son, ants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Raja | det |
| 2 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Raja | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slept | cc |
| 8 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 crushed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crushed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ants | det |
| 12 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 crushed | nsubj |
| 13 | crushed | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 crushed | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 oil | det |
| 16 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crushed | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crushed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie down | past | the Raja's son | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | the Raja's son not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | crush out | past | the ants | the oil | for son | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oil=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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