Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 24
The king of the fishes did so, and the ring was found and carried back to the cat.
Who acts: king · What happens: do, find, carry back · To what, where: ring, cat
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 did | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fishes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fishes | det |
| 5 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 king | nmod |
| 6 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 did | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ring | det |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 found | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 found | aux:pass |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 did | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 found | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 carried | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 cat | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 carried | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the king of the fishes | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | the ring | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | carry back | participle | the cat | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to cat=Destination |
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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