Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 25
The Raja then saw the Prudhan's widow go to the place where all his dinner was nicely prepared, and, as she took the wood, she threw a little mud into each of the dishes.
Who acts: Raja, widow, dinner, Balna · What happens: see, go, be, take, throw · To what, where: place, wood, little mud, each · 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 (Raja, widow, dinner, Balna), 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 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 saw | advmod |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prudhan | det |
| 6 | Prudhan | Prudhan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 widow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Prudhan | case |
| 8 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | nsubj |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 go | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 prepared | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 dinner | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 prepared | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 prepared | cop |
| 18 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 19 prepared | advmod |
| 19 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 place | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 took | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | nsubj |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 wood | det |
| 27 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 threw | punct |
| 29 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 threw | nsubj |
| 30 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 mud | det |
| 32 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 mud | amod |
| 33 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 threw | obj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 each | case |
| 35 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 threw | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 dishes | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 dishes | det |
| 38 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 each | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Raja | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the Prudhan's widow | the place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Prudhan's dinner | nicely, prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take | past | Balna | the wood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | Balna | a little mud | into each result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer mud=Theme into each=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/9/25/