Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 53
Every morning the Princesses went to their mother's grave, and found the little tank filled with the nourishing cream-like cake.
Who acts: Princesses · What happens: go, find, fill · To what, where: grave, little tank
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 (Princesses), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Princesses | det |
| 4 | Princesses | Princess | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grave | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tank | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tank | amod |
| 16 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | obj |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tank | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 cake | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cake | det |
| 20 | nourishing | nourishing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cake | amod |
| 21 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 like | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 cream | punct |
| 23 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cake | amod |
| 24 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Princesses | Princesses's mother's grave | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | the Princesses not said here | the little tank | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tank=Topic | ||||
| 3 | fill | participle | the little tank not said here | with the nourishing like cake | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cake=Instrument |
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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