Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 80
Afterwards they walked together to the river side, where it was decided to try the powers of the charmed ring and pot and spoon.
Who acts: friends · What happens: walk, decide, try, charm · To what, where: top, powers
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 (friends), 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 | Afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 side | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 side | compound |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 decided | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 decided | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 decided | aux:pass |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 walked | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 try | mark |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 powers | det |
| 17 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 try | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ring | det |
| 20 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 ring | amod |
| 21 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 powers | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pot | cc |
| 23 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ring | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 spoon | cc |
| 25 | spoon | spoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ring | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | friends = friend | to the river side result; afterwards, together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result | ||||
| 2 | decide | past · passive | top | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: subject=Co-Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | the powers of the charmed ring and pot and spoon | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | charm | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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