Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 87
The king did so, and the tigers and the demons fought and fought until the tigers had killed the demons.
Who acts: king, tigers · What happens: do, fight, kill · To what, where: tigers
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 (king, tigers), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fought | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tigers | det |
| 8 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fought | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 demons | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 demons | det |
| 11 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 tigers | conj |
| 12 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fought | cc |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fought | conj |
| 15 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tigers | det |
| 17 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fought | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 demons | det |
| 21 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 killed | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | fight | past | the tigers and the demons | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fight | past | the tigers and the demons not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | kill | past · perfect · passive | the tigers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer demon=Result |
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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