Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 59
Attended by his three companions the man walked to the well and prepared to jump in, according to the snake's directions. "
Who acts: man · What happens: attend, walk, prepare, jump in, accord · To what, where: three companions, well
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 (man), 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 | Attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 companions | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 companions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 companions | nummod |
| 5 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Attended | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 companions | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prepared | cc |
| 13 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Attended | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 jump | mark |
| 15 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 prepared | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 jump | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 directions | punct |
| 18 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 directions | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 according | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 snake | det |
| 21 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 directions | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 snake | case |
| 23 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 jump | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 directions | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 directions | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attend | participle | by man's three companions | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by companion=Theme | |||||
| 2 | walk | past | the man | man's three companions not said here | the well | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent companion=Theme to well=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | prepare | participle | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | jump in not said to happen | to-infinitive | accord the snake's directions | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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