Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 18
At last, one day, he determined to hide, and watch his daughters cooking, and see how it all happened; so he went into the next room, and watched them through a hole in the wall.
Who acts: Prudhan, daughters, it · What happens: determine, hide, watch, cook, see, happen · To what, where: next room, daughters, hole · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Prudhan, daughters, it), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 day | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 determined | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 day | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 determined | nsubj |
| 8 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 hide | mark |
| 10 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 determined | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 watch | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 watch | cc |
| 13 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hide | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 cooking | nsubj |
| 16 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 watch | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 see | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 see | cc |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hide | advcl |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 happened | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 happened | advmod |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 see | ccomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 determined | conj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 room | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 room | det |
| 30 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 room | amod |
| 31 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 watched | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 watched | cc |
| 34 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 determined | conj |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 watched | obj |
| 36 | through | through | ADP | _ | 38 hole | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 hole | det |
| 38 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 watched | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 wall | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wall | det |
| 41 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 hole | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | past | Prudhan | day | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hide | to-infinitive | Prudhan not said here | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | Prudhan not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | cook | gerund | Prudhan's daughters | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | infinitive | Prudhan not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | happen | past | it | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go | past | Prudhan | the next room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | watch | past | Prudhan not said here | daughters = daughter | a hole in the wall | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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