Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 9
So he set out on his travels; but for some months he could learn nothing to help him in his search.
Who acts: Balna · What happens: set out, travel, learn, help, search · To what, where: nothing, Balna, search
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 travels | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 travels | nmod:poss |
| 7 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 learn | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 learn | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 months | det |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 learn | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 learn | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 learn | aux |
| 15 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | conj |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 learn | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 help | mark |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nothing | acl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 search | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 search | nmod:poss |
| 22 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Balna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | present | Balna not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | could | Balna | nothing | month | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Balna not said here | nothing not said here | Balna | Balna's search | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||
| 5 | search | Balna | nom search «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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