Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 119

So the cat and dog started off at a run, and did not stop till they reached the place whither their mistress and the house had been taken. "

Who acts: cat, efforts · What happens: start off, not stop, reach, take · To what, where: run, place, mistress

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: who acts (cat, efforts), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 started	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	conj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 started	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 run	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 run	det
10	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stop	cc
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stop	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 stop	advmod
15	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 started	parataxis
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 reached	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 reached	nsubj
18	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stop	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 place	det
20	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reached	obj
21	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	29 taken	advmod
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mistress	nmod:poss
23	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 taken	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 house	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 house	det
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 mistress	conj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 taken	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 taken	aux:pass
29	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 reached	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	start off	past	the cat and dog		a run		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not stop	past · do-support					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	reach	past	efforts = effort	the place			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	take	past · perfect · passive		efforts's mistress and the house		whither property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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