Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 49
They stole over towards him, intending to kill him, like the others who had been before him: but he was ready for them.
Who acts: Shahmars, others, prince · What happens: steal over, intend, kill, be · To what, where: prince
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 (Shahmars, others, prince), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | nsubj |
| 2 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 stole | advmod |
| 4 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stole | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 intending | punct |
| 7 | intending | intend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stole | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 kill | mark |
| 9 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 intending | xcomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 kill | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 others | punct |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 others | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 others | det |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kill | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 him | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 him | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 him | cop |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 others | acl:relcl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 ready | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 ready | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ready | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ready | cop |
| 24 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 stole | parataxis |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 ready | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal over | past | Shahmars = shahmar | towards prince; over property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | intend | gerund | Shahmars = shahmar not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kill not said to happen | to-infinitive | Shahmars = shahmar not said here | prince | like the others | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past · perfect | the others | before prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | prince | for Shahmars = shahmar; ready property | tree rules |
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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