Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 65
Then I went mad, and I have wandered about all these years looking for you."
Who acts: I, years · What happens: go, wander, look
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 (I, years), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 went | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wandered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wandered | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 wandered | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wandered | aux |
| 9 | wandered | wander | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 years | det:predet |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 years | det |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wandered | obl |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 years | acl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 looking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | I | then | mad property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | wander | present · perfect | I | year | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | all years not said here | for you | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for you=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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