Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 109
While thus retracing his steps he reached the ruined well where he had released the three brute kings and the goldsmith.
Who acts: prophecy · What happens: retrace, reach, ruin, release, step · To what, where: steps, prophecy
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophecy), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 retracing | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 retracing | advmod |
| 3 | retracing | retrace | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 retracing | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 steps | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ruined | det |
| 9 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reached | ccomp |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ruined | advmod |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 released | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 released | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 released | aux |
| 14 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ruined | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 kings | det |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 kings | nummod |
| 17 | brute | brute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 kings | amod |
| 18 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 released | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 goldsmith | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goldsmith | det |
| 21 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kings | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retracing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retrace | gerund | prophecy's steps | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | prophecy | prophecy's steps not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ruin | participle | prophecy not said here | well property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | release | past · perfect · passive | prophecy | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | step | prophecy | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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