Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 35
After some time had passed very happily, Prince Majnun and his wife went out to eat the air.
Who acts: time, wife · What happens: pass, go out, eat · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, wife), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 passed | mark |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 happily | advmod |
| 7 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passed | obl:agent |
| 10 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | flat |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | some time | happily property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | prince's wife | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | prince's wife not said here | the air | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |
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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