Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 142
The merchant consented, and went after the dog right up to the very place where the thieves had hidden the goods.
Who acts: merchant · What happens: consent, go, hide · To what, where: place, thieves
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 (merchant), 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 | 2 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 went | cc |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 dog | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dog | det |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 place | advmod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 place | advmod |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 hidden | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 thieves | det |
| 18 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hidden | aux |
| 20 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 place | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 goods | det |
| 22 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 hidden | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the merchant | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the merchant not said here | the place | after the dog | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up place=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | the thieves | tree rules |
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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