Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 3
When this merchant saw his dog coming back again, he thought, 'Alas! my friend is wanting the money.
Who acts: merchant, dog, friend · What happens: see, come back, think, want · To what, where: dog, Alas, money · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (merchant, dog, friend), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 dog | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obj |
| 7 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 coming | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 thought | nsubj |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Alas | punct |
| 14 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Alas | punct |
| 15 | Alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 thought | obj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 Alas | punct |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 friend | nmod:poss |
| 18 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanting | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 wanting | aux |
| 20 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 money | det |
| 22 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanting | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | this merchant | merchant's dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | gerund | merchant's dog not said here | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | merchant | Alas | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ala=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | want | present · progressive | my friend | the money | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot money=Theme |
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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