Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 137
The faithful dog, however, knew what was going on, and went and followed the thieves, and saw where they deposited the things, and then returned.
Who acts: faithful dog, thieves · What happens: know, go on, go, follow, see, deposit · To what, where: thieves, things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (faithful dog, thieves), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dog | det |
| 2 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dog | amod |
| 3 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dog | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 knew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 going | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 followed | cc |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thieves | det |
| 18 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 followed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 saw | cc |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | parataxis |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 deposited | advmod |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 deposited | nsubj |
| 24 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 things | det |
| 26 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deposited | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 returned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 returned | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 returned | advmod |
| 30 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 saw | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the faithful dog | however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | follow | past | the thieves | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme | |||||
| 5 | see | past | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | deposit | past | thieves = thief | the things | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme | ||||
| 7 | return | past | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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