Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 90
Two months after this, the Brahman's wife, not having heard any news of her husband, left the house and went in quest of him.
Who acts: wife, Two months, king · What happens: not hear, leave, go, quest · To what, where: news, house, quest
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 (wife, Two months, 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 months | nummod |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 left | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 months | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wife | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Brahman | det |
| 7 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 Brahman | case |
| 9 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 months | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 heard | advmod |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 heard | aux |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 wife | acl:relcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 news | det |
| 15 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 husband | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 news | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 months | punct |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 house | det |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 quest | case |
| 26 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 quest | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | gerund · perfect | the Brahman's wife not said here | any news of measure's husband | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | Two months after this | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Two months after this not said here | quest of king | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in quest=Location | ||||
| 4 | quest | king | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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