Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 78
On reaching the top of the spring he found his friends, the dog and the cat, waiting for him.
Who acts: Raja, friends · What happens: reach, find, wait · To what, where: top, friends
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 (Raja, friends), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1024): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 found | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spring | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dog | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 friends | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cat | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cat | det |
| 17 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dog | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 waiting | punct |
| 19 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 found | xcomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 waiting | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | Raja not said here | the top of the spring | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Raja | Raja's friends | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent friend=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | Raja's friends not said here | for Raja | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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