Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 75

They used to go out hunting, and they often went from country to country to eat the air and amuse themselves.

Who acts: feasts · What happens: use, go out, go, eat, amuse · To what, where: hunting, country, air, feasts

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 (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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 go	mark
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 used	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 go	compound:prt
6	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 went	nsubj
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 used	conj
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 country	case
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 country	case
15	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 eat	mark
17	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 went	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 air	det
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 eat	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 amuse	cc
21	amuse	amuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 eat	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 amuse	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 used	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	use	past	feasts = feast				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	go out	to-infinitive	feasts = feast not said here	hunting			vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	past	feasts = feast		country	to country; often property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location to country=Destination
4	eat	to-infinitive	feasts = feast not said here	the air			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient
5	amuse	present	feasts = feast not said here	feasts = feast			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer

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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