Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 72
The young man and the snake reached their destination in safety; and information of their arrival was sent to the Raja.
Who acts: young man, arrival, foods · What happens: reach, send, inform, arrive · To what, where: destination, safety, information, Raja
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 (young man, arrival, foods), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 snake | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 man | conj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 destination | nmod:poss |
| 9 | destination | destination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 safety | case |
| 11 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 information | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 information | cc |
| 14 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arrival | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 information | nmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sent | aux:pass |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 reached | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Raja | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Raja | det |
| 22 | Raja | Raja | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 sent | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the young man and the snake | foods's destination | safety | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent destination=Theme | |||
| 2 | send | past · passive | information of foods's arrival | the Raja | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to raja=Destination | ||||
| 3 | inform | foods's arrival | nom information «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | arrive | foods = food | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=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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