Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 103
Laili stayed in the garden, hidden in the tall grass, till Prince Majnun and Husain Mahamat came to walk in the garden.
Who acts: Laili, Majnun · What happens: stay, hide, come, walk · To what, where: garden, tall grass
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Laili, Majnun), 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 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hidden | punct |
| 7 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stayed | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grass | det |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grass | amod |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hidden | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 19 came | mark |
| 14 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 15 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 came | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Husain | cc |
| 17 | Husain | Husain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Majnun | conj |
| 18 | Mahamat | Mahamat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Husain | flat |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 walk | mark |
| 21 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 garden | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 garden | det |
| 24 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 walk | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Laili | the garden | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Location | ||||
| 2 | hide | participle | Laili not said here | the tall grass | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Majnun Prince and Husain | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | walk | to-infinitive | Majnun Prince and Husain not said here | the garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory |
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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