Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 113
Before him stood a miserable hovel, into which, being tired after his long, unsuccessful chase, he entered to ask for a drink of water.
Who acts: king · What happens: stand, be, enter, ask, chase · To what, where: miserable hovel
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), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 stood | mark |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 entered | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hovel | det |
| 5 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hovel | amod |
| 6 | hovel | hovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 tired | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tired | punct |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 tired | cop |
| 12 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | advcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 18 chase | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chase | nmod:poss |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chase | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chase | amod |
| 18 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tired | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 entered | nsubj |
| 21 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ask | mark |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 entered | xcomp |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 drink | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 drink | det |
| 26 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 water | case |
| 28 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 drink | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | king | a miserable hovel | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hovel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | king not said here | after king's long unsuccessful chase | tired property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | enter | past | king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | king not said here | for a drink of water | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | chase | king | nom chase «act 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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