Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 107

Here also he was at first unsuccessful, but just as he had made up his mind to give up for that day, a white hind with golden horns and silver hoofs flashed past him into a thicket.

Who acts: king, white hind · What happens: be, make up, give up, flash, mind · To what, where: mind, thicket

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 (king, white hind), 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	7 unsuccessful	advmod
2	also	also	ADV	_	7 unsuccessful	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 unsuccessful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 unsuccessful	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 first	case
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 unsuccessful	obl
7	unsuccessful	unsuccessful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 made	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 made	cc
10	just	just	ADV	_	14 made	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	14 made	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 made	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 made	aux
14	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 unsuccessful	parataxis
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 made	compound:prt
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mind	nmod:poss
17	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 made	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 made	advcl
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 give	compound:prt
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 day	case
22	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 day	det
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hind	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 hind	det
26	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 hind	amod
27	hind	hind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 day	appos
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 horns	case
29	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 horns	amod
30	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hind	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 hoofs	cc
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 hoofs	compound
33	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 horns	conj
34	flashed	flash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 hind	acl
35	past	past	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 flashed	obl
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 thicket	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 thicket	det
39	thicket	thicket	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 flashed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 unsuccessful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	king		here		unsuccessful property	tree rules
2	make up	past · perfect	king	king's mind				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot
3	give up	to-infinitive	king not said here			day		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	flash	past	a white hind with golden horns and silver hoofs not said here		a thicket		past king	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into thicket=Recipient
5	mind		king					nom mind «cognition 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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