Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 122
He said this to her, and after turning the matter over in his mind, while people were asleep he took away from the house of Sthuladatta a horse on which his master's son-in-law rode.
Who acts: Harisarman, people · What happens: say, turn over, be, take away, mind · To what, where: this, stupidity, matter, mind, horse, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Harisarman, people), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 said | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 turning | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 turning | mark |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 said | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 turning | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mind | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 turning | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asleep | punct |
| 17 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 asleep | mark |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 asleep | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asleep | cop |
| 20 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 took | advcl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 took | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Sthuladatta | case |
| 28 | Sthuladatta | Sthuladatta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 horse | det |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 which | case |
| 32 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 rode | obl |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 master | nmod:poss |
| 34 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 master | case |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rode | nsubj |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 rode | punct |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 rode | case |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 in | punct |
| 40 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 rode | compound |
| 41 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 horse | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Harisarman | this | stupidity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | turn over | gerund | Harisarman not said here | the matter | Harisarman's mind | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent matter=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | people | asleep property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take away | past | Harisarman | a horse | the house of Sthuladatta | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | mind | Harisarman | nom mind «cognition 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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