Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 83
One morning he started with some food in a bundle, and walked on day after day, till he reached the chief city of the neighbouring country.
Who acts: king · What happens: start, walk, reach, neighbour · To what, where: bundle, chief city
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 food | det |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bundle | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bundle | det |
| 10 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 walked | cc |
| 13 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | parataxis |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 day | case |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walked | obl |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 city | det |
| 23 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 city | amod |
| 24 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 country | det |
| 27 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 country | amod |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 city | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | king | a bundle | morning | with some food | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with food=Subeventuality | ||
| 2 | walk | past | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | king | the chief city of the neighbouring country | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | 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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