Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 131
At once he inquired for the house of his goldsmith friend, and found him without difficulty.
Who acts: Manikkasari · What happens: inquire, find · To what, where: Manikkasari
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 (Manikkasari), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 inquired | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 inquired | nsubj |
| 4 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inquired | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 friend | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friend | compound |
| 11 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inquired | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 difficulty | case |
| 17 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | Manikkasari | for the house of Manikkasari's goldsmith friend | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Manikkasari not said here | Manikkasari | without difficulty | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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