Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 69
All the hunters told him that his father was carried away by a tiger.
Who acts: hunters, tiger · What happens: tell, carry away · To what, where: honour, father · 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 (hunters, tiger), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 hunters | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hunters | det |
| 3 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 carried | mark |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | aux:pass |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 told | ccomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 carried | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 tiger | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tiger | det |
| 14 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | all hunters | honour | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry away | past · passive | a tiger | honour's father | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
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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