Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 117
So the prince bade adieu to his mother and relations and friends, and rode off on his horse, whither he did not know.
Who acts: bade adieu, adieu · What happens: ride off, not know
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bade adieu, adieu), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 rode | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 adieu | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bade | compound |
| 4 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adieu | compound |
| 5 | adieu | adieu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 mother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 adieu | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 relations | cc |
| 10 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mother | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 friends | cc |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 relations | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 rode | cc |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 rode | compound:prt |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 horse | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 know | punct |
| 21 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 know | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 know | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 know | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 know | advmod |
| 25 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rode | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride off | past | the bade adieu to adieu's mother and relations and friends | on adieu's horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | adieu | whither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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