Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 88
Two days afterwards his father came back, and when he learnt his son's fate he grieved and mourned.
Who acts: father, son · What happens: come back, learn, grieve, mourn, fate · To what, where: fate
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 (father, son), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 afterwards | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 learnt | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 learnt | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 learnt | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 learnt | nsubj |
| 12 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fate | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 son | case |
| 16 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 learnt | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 grieved | nsubj |
| 18 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fate | acl:relcl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mourned | cc |
| 20 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grieved | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | son's father | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | learn | past | son | son's son's fate | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic | ||||
| 3 | grieve | past | son | son's son's fate not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fate=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | mourn | past | son not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | fate | son's son | nom fate «event 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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