Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 37

He journeyed on and on till he came to a milk-white pond, guarded by the eighteen thousand demons.

Who acts: lad · What happens: journey, come, guard · To what, where: white pond

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 journeyed	nsubj
2	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 journeyed	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 on	cc
5	on	on	ADV	_	3 on	conj
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 came	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 journeyed	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	14 pond	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pond	det
11	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 white	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 milk	punct
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pond	amod
14	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 guarded	punct
16	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 pond	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	21 demons	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 demons	det
19	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 thousand	compound
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 demons	nummod
21	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 guarded	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 journeyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	journey	past	lad				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	lad		a white pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
3	guard	participle		a white pond not said here		by the thousand demons	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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