Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 141
At last a friend suggested that, perhaps, the dog knew something of the whereabouts of the things, and advised the merchant to follow its leadings.
Who acts: dog · What happens: suggest, know, advise, follow · To what, where: something, merchant, leadings
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 (dog), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 friend | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 friend | det |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 suggested | obl |
| 5 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 perhaps | punct |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 12 knew | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 perhaps | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dog | det |
| 11 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suggested | advcl |
| 13 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 knew | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 whereabouts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whereabouts | det |
| 16 | whereabouts | whereabouts | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 13 something | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 things | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 things | det |
| 19 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 whereabouts | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 advised | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 advised | cc |
| 22 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 suggested | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 merchant | det |
| 24 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 advised | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 follow | mark |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 advised | advcl |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 leadings | nmod:poss |
| 28 | leadings | leading | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 follow | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 suggested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suggest speech: suggest | past | at a last friend | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | past | the dog | something | perhaps property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | the merchant | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent merchant=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | follow | to-infinitive | thing's leadings | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leading=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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