Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 13
By the time the prince had concluded this story it was nearly morning, and he went away, after rewarding the man.
Who acts: story, merchant · What happens: conclude, be, go away, reward · To what, where: prince, morning, man
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 (story, merchant), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concluded | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concluded | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 concluded | aux |
| 7 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 morning | nsubj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 morning | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 morning | cop |
| 12 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 13 morning | advmod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 concluded | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 concluded | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rewarding | punct |
| 20 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 21 rewarding | mark |
| 21 | rewarding | reward | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 went | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rewarding | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | past · perfect · passive | the prince | time | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | this story | morning | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go away | past | merchant | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reward | gerund | merchant not said here | the man | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient |
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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