Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 111
Forgetful of all else, the King, setting spurs to his horse, followed at full speed.
Who acts: Forgetful · What happens: set, follow · To what, where: spurs, full speed
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 (Forgetful), 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 | Forgetful | Forgetful | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 setting | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 Forgetful | conj |
| 4 | else | else | ADV | _ | 3 all | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 King | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Forgetful | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 setting | punct |
| 9 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 10 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 setting | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 horse | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 setting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 setting | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 speed | case |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 speed | amod |
| 18 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 setting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | gerund | Forgetful and the King | spurs | to king's horse | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient spur=Result | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | Forgetful and the King not said here | full speed | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location |
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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