Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 36
They rode on the same horse, and had only a groom with them.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: ride, have · To what, where: groom
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 (eyes), 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 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horse | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 horse | amod |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 groom | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 groom | det |
| 12 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 groom | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | eyes = eye | on the same horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | eyes = eye not said here | a groom | with eyes = eye | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groom=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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