Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 92
When the mares have foaled, I shall have plenty of horses; and when I sell them, plenty of gold.
Who acts: I · What happens: foal, have, sell · To what, where: mares, plenty
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 (I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 foaled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mares | det |
| 3 | mares | mare | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 foaled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 foaled | aux |
| 5 | foaled | foal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 have | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 foaled | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 horses | case |
| 12 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 plenty | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 sell | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sell | cc |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 sell | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sell | nsubj |
| 17 | sell | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | conj |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sell | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sell | punct |
| 20 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sell | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 gold | case |
| 22 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plenty | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foal | present · perfect · passive | the mares | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | have | shall | I | plenty of horses | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sell | present | I | mares = mare | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient plenty=Theme |
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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