Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 40
This news did not comfort the poor Rohu, and he swam on and on till he came to Prince Majnun's country.
Who acts: news · What happens: not comfort, swim, come · To what, where: poor Rohu, country
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 (news), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 news | det |
| 2 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 comfort | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comfort | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 comfort | advmod |
| 5 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Rohu | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Rohu | amod |
| 8 | Rohu | Rohu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 comfort | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swam | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swam | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swam | nsubj |
| 12 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comfort | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 12 swam | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 on | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 13 on | conj |
| 16 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 18 came | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 swam | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 country | case |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 21 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 country | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 Majnun | case |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comfort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not comfort | past · do-support | this news | the poor Rohu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus rohu=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swim | past | news | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | news | Majnun Prince's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_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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