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Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 84

The reed floated on the water for many miles, and was at last picked up by the prince of that country, who curiously opened it and saw the golden hair.

Who acts: country · What happens: float, pick up, be, open, see · To what, where: reed, water, golden hair

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 (country), 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

detaclcasedetoblcaseamodoblpunctcccopcaseamodamodcompound:prtcasedetapposcasedetnmodpunctnsubjadvmodparataxisobjccconjdetamodobjpunctrootTheDETreedNOUNfloatedVERBonADPtheDETwaterNOUNforADPmanyADJmilesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXatADPlastADJpickedVERBupADPbyADPtheDETprinceNOUNofADPthatDETcountryNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONcuriouslyADVopenedVERBitPRONandCCONJsawVERBtheDETgoldenADJhairNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 reeddet
2reedreedNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
3floatedfloatVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass2 reedacl
4ononADP_6 watercase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 waterdet
6waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing3 floatedobl
7forforADP_9 milescase
8manymanyADJDegree=Pos9 milesamod
9milesmileNOUNNumber=Plur3 floatedobl
10,,PUNCT_19 princepunct
11andandCCONJ_19 princecc
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 princecop
13atatADP_19 princecase
14lastlastADJDegree=Pos19 princeamod
15pickedpickVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass19 princeamod
16upupADP_15 pickedcompound:prt
17bybyADP_19 princecase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 princedet
19princeprinceNOUNNumber=Sing2 reedappos
20ofofADP_22 countrycase
21thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem22 countrydet
22countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing19 princenmod
23,,PUNCT_26 openedpunct
24whowhoPRONPronType=Rel26 openednsubj
25curiouslycuriouslyADV_26 openedadvmod
26openedopenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 countryparataxis
27ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs26 openedobj
28andandCCONJ_29 sawcc
29sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin26 openedconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 hairdet
31goldengoldenADJDegree=Pos32 hairamod
32hairhairNOUNNumber=Sing29 sawobj
33..PUNCT_2 reedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1floatparticiplethe reed not said herethe waterfor many milesvn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory
2pick upparticiplevn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
3ispastat the last picked prince; of that countrytree rules
4openpastthat countryreedcuriously propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5seepastthat country not said herethe golden hairvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hair=Stimulus

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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