Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 8
And in the morning he brought the king, by some skilful parade of pretended knowledge into the garden, and led him up to the treasure, which was buried under the pomegranate tree, and said that the thief had escaped with a part of it.
Who acts: chance · What happens: bring, pretend, lead up, bury, say, escape · To what, where: king, garden, chance, treasure, pomegranate tree, thief · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chance), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 brought | cc |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 parade | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 parade | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 parade | det |
| 12 | skilful | skilful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 parade | amod |
| 13 | parade | parade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 knowledge | case |
| 15 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 knowledge | amod |
| 16 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 parade | nmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 garden | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 garden | det |
| 19 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 brought | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 led | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 led | cc |
| 22 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | parataxis |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 led | obj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 led | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 treasure | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 treasure | det |
| 27 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 led | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 buried | punct |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 buried | aux:pass |
| 31 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 treasure | acl:relcl |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 35 tree | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tree | det |
| 34 | pomegranate | pomegranate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tree | compound |
| 35 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 buried | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 said | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 said | cc |
| 38 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 led | conj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 escaped | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 thief | det |
| 41 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 escaped | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 escaped | aux |
| 43 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 said | ccomp |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 part | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 part | det |
| 46 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 escaped | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 part | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | chance | the king | the garden | morning | by some skilful parade of pretended knowledge | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme into garden=Destination | |
| 2 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lead up | past | chance | to the treasure | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bury | past · passive | the treasure | the pomegranate tree | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme under tree=Destination | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | escape | past · perfect · passive | the thief | with a part of part | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location |
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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