Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 84
Here he went and sat down by a merchant's shop and asked alms.
Who acts: king · What happens: go, sit down, ask · To what, where: alms
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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sat | cc |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 sat | compound:prt |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 shop | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shop | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 11 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | alms | alm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | king not said here | by a merchant's shop | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by shop=Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king not said here | alms | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent alm=Recipient |
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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