Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 51
Now there was by the Ranee's tomb a small tank, and as they were crying they saw that the tank was filled with a rich cream-like substance, which quickly hardened into a thick white cake.
Who acts: small tank, Princesses, rich like substance · What happens: be, cry, see, fill, harden · To what, where: tank, thick white cake · 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 (small tank, Princesses, rich like substance), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | parataxis |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 tomb | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ranee | det |
| 6 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tomb | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Ranee | case |
| 8 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | obl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tank | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tank | amod |
| 11 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 was | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 crying | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 crying | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 crying | aux |
| 17 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | advcl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 filled | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tank | det |
| 22 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 filled | aux:pass |
| 24 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 substance | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 substance | det |
| 27 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 substance | amod |
| 28 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 like | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 like | punct |
| 30 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 substance | amod |
| 31 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 filled | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 hardened | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hardened | nsubj |
| 34 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 35 hardened | advmod |
| 35 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 substance | acl:relcl |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 cake | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cake | det |
| 38 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cake | amod |
| 39 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 cake | amod |
| 40 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hardened | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a small tank | there | now | by the Ranee's tomb | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by tomb=Location | ||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | Princesses = princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Princesses = princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | the tank | with a rich like substance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with substance=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | harden | past | a rich like substance | a thick white cake | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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