Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 106

Nor had he more success to the east or west, so that, being a keen sportsman, and determined not to go home empty-handed, he forgot all about his promise, and turned to the north.

Who acts: Nor, king · What happens: have, be, determine, not go, hand, forget · To what, where: king, keen sportsman, promise, north

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 success	amod
5	success	success	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 east	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 east	det
8	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 success	nmod
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 west	cc
10	west	west	ADV	_	8 east	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 that	punct
12	so	so	SCONJ	_	13 that	case
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sportsman	punct
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 sportsman	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sportsman	det
17	keen	keen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sportsman	amod
18	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 that	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 determined	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 determined	cc
21	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 go	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 go	mark
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 determined	xcomp
25	home	home	ADV	_	24 go	advmod
26	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 handed	amod
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 empty	punct
28	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 go	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 forgot	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 forgot	nsubj
31	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 determined	conj
32	all	all	ADV	_	35 promise	advmod
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 promise	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 promise	nmod:poss
35	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 forgot	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turned	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 turned	cc
38	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 forgot	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 north	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 north	det
41	north	north	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turned	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nor	king			tree rules
2	is a	gerund	Nor not said here	a keen sportsman			tree rules
3	determine	past					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not go	to-infinitive				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hand	participle					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	forget	past	king	king's promise			tree rules
7	turn	past	king not said here		the north		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to north=Trajectory
8	promise		king				nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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