Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 1
Whereupon he tore open Drumikin and gobbled up Lambikin.
Who acts: he · What happens: tore, gobble up · To what, where: open Drumikin, Lambikin
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 tore | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tore | nsubj |
| 3 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Drumikin | amod |
| 5 | Drumikin | Drumikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tore | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gobbled | cc |
| 7 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tore | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gobbled | compound:prt |
| 9 | Lambikin | Lambikin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gobbled | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tore | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tore | past | he | open Drumikin | whereupon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gobble up | past | he not said here | Lambikin | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lambikin=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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