Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 70
And there were great feasts, and they were married, and travelled to the Phalana country to see her father and mother.
Who acts: great feasts · What happens: be, marry, travel, see · To what, where: feasts, Phalana country, father
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 (great feasts), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 were | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 were | expl |
| 3 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 travelled | advcl |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feasts | amod |
| 5 | feasts | feast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 were | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 married | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 married | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 married | aux:pass |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 were | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 travelled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 travelled | cc |
| 13 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 16 | Phalana | Phalana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 country | compound |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 travelled | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 travelled | advcl |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 see | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mother | cc |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 father | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | great feasts | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | feasts = feast | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | travel | past | the Phalana country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to country=Destination | |||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | Laili's father and mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
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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