Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 109
Meanwhile the merchant's son had returned from hunting and was terribly distressed not to find his house and wife.
What happens: return, distress, not find · To what, where: son, hunting, house
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 son | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 merchant | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | aux |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 hunting | case |
| 9 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 distressed | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 distressed | aux:pass |
| 12 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 13 distressed | advmod |
| 13 | distressed | distress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 returned | conj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 find | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 distressed | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wife | cc |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past · perfect · passive | the merchant's son | hunting | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from hunting=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | distress | past · passive | terribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 3 | not find | to-infinitive | son's house and wife | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Topic |
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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