Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 82
And the seventh, and the handsomest of all, took the beautiful Balna.
Who acts: all · What happens: take · To what, where: beautiful Balna
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 (all), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 seventh | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 seventh | det |
| 3 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 handsomest | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 handsomest | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 handsomest | det |
| 7 | handsomest | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 seventh | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 took | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 all | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 handsomest | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Balna | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Balna | amod |
| 14 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seventh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | all | the beautiful Balna | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument balna=Destination |
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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