Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 86
They met and recognised each other, even at a distance.
Who acts: king · What happens: meet, recognise · To what, where: each
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 (king), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 met | nsubj |
| 2 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 recognised | cc |
| 4 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 met | conj |
| 5 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 recognised | obj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 each | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 distance | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 distance | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 met | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | king | at a distance | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | recognise | past | king not said here | each | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
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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