Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 19
Turn his eyes wherever he might he found a vast desert, out of which he saw no means of escape.
Who acts: you, morsel, no · What happens: turn, find, see, mean · To what, where: eyes, vast desert · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, morsel, no), 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 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Turn | obj |
| 4 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 found | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 6 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 found | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 desert | det |
| 10 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 desert | amod |
| 11 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 found | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 saw | obl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Turn | parataxis |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 means | nsubj |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 escape | case |
| 21 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 means | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | imperative | you not said here | morsel's eyes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | might | morsel | a vast desert | wherever property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Topic | |||
| 3 | see | past | morsel | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | no | of escape | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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