Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 123

He placed it in concealment at some distance, and in the morning the friends of the bridegroom could not find the horse, though they searched in every direction.

Who acts: Harisarman, friends · What happens: place, not find, search · To what, where: horse, concealment, direction

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, friends), 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 placed	nsubj
2	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 placed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 concealment	case
5	concealment	concealment	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 distance	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 distance	det
8	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 placed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 morning	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 morning	det
13	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 friends	det
15	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 find	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 bridegroom	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bridegroom	det
18	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 friends	nmod
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 find	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 find	advmod
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 placed	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 horse	det
23	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 searched	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	27 searched	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 searched	nsubj
27	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 placed	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 direction	case
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 direction	det
30	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 searched	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	place	past	Harisarman	horse	concealment		at some distance	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in concealment=Destination
2	not find	could	the friends of the bridegroom	the horse		morning		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Topic
3	search	past	friends = friend		every direction			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in direction=Location

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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