Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 84
It so happened that unwittingly he took a wrong road, and had to pass near a sea-coast.
Who acts: It, Gangazara · What happens: happen, take, have, pass · To what, where: wrong road, sea coast
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 (It, Gangazara), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 took | mark |
| 5 | unwittingly | unwittingly | ADV | _ | 7 took | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 9 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 road | amod |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 had | cc |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 pass | mark |
| 15 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | xcomp |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 20 coast | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 coast | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coast | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sea | punct |
| 20 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pass | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | It | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | Gangazara | a wrong road | unwittingly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | |||
| 3 | have | past | Gangazara not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | Gangazara not said here | a sea coast | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near coast=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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