Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 118
She followed him everywhere, went with him when he was out hunting, and helped him to catch his game, and Prince Majnun fed her with milk, or bread, or anything else he was eating, and at night the little dog slept in his bed.
Who acts: Laili, Prince, Majnun, little dog · What happens: follow, go, be, help, catch, feed · To what, where: Prince, hunting, game, Laili, anything, bed
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, Prince, Majnun, little dog), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 followed | obj |
| 4 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 2 followed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 followed | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | obl |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 hunting | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hunting | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hunting | cop |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 was | compound:prt |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 helped | cc |
| 16 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 helped | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 catch | mark |
| 19 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 helped | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 game | nmod:poss |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 catch | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fed | cc |
| 24 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 fed | nsubj |
| 26 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 helped | conj |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 milk | case |
| 29 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bread | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 bread | cc |
| 32 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 milk | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 eating | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 anything | cc |
| 35 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 39 eating | obj |
| 36 | else | else | ADV | _ | 35 anything | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 eating | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 eating | aux |
| 39 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 fed | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 slept | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 slept | cc |
| 42 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 night | case |
| 43 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 slept | obl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 dog | det |
| 45 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 dog | amod |
| 46 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 slept | nsubj |
| 47 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 eating | conj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 bed | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 bed | nmod:poss |
| 50 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 slept | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Laili | Prince | everywhere property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past | Laili not said here | with Prince | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Prince | hunting | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | help | past | Prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | Prince's game | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Theme | ||||
| 6 | feed | past | Majnun Prince | Laili | with milk or bread | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 7 | eat | past · progressive | Prince | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 8 | sleep | past | the little dog | Prince's bed | night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location |
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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