Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 109
He instantly ordered his attendants to form a ring round the thicket, and so encircle the hind; then, gradually narrowing the circle, he pressed forward till he could distinctly see the white hind panting in the midst.
Who acts: king, attendants, white hind · What happens: order, form, encircle, narrow, press forward, see · To what, where: attendants, ring, hind, circle, white hind, midst
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, attendants, white hind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1288): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 3 ordered | advmod |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 5 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 form | mark |
| 7 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ring | det |
| 9 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | obj |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 thicket | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 thicket | det |
| 12 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 form | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 encircle | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 encircle | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 encircle | advmod |
| 16 | encircle | encircle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 form | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hind | det |
| 18 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 encircle | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 pressed | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 pressed | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 narrowing | punct |
| 22 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 23 narrowing | advmod |
| 23 | narrowing | narrow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 pressed | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 circle | det |
| 25 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 narrowing | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 pressed | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pressed | nsubj |
| 28 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ordered | parataxis |
| 29 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 28 pressed | advmod |
| 30 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 33 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 34 see | advmod |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pressed | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hind | det |
| 36 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 hind | amod |
| 37 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 38 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 see | xcomp |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 midst | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 midst | det |
| 41 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 panting | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | king | king's attendants | instantly property | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | form not said to happen | to-infinitive | king's attendants not said here | a ring | round the thicket | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ring=Theme | |||
| 3 | encircle | infinitive | king's attendants not said here | the hind | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hind=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | narrow | gerund | king not said here | the circle | gradually property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent circle=Patient | |||
| 5 | press forward | past | king | then | forward property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | see | could | king | the white hind | distinctly property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | pant | gerund | the white hind not said here | the midst | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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