Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 4
At last, when he was quite a big lad, he one day took his bow and arrow, and went out to seek for game.
Who acts: world · What happens: be, take, go out, seek · To what, where: last big lad, bow
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 (world), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 lad | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lad | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lad | cop |
| 7 | quite | quite | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 lad | det:predet |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lad | det |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lad | amod |
| 10 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lad | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | nsubj |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 he | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 arrow | cc |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bow | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 seek | mark |
| 25 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 went | xcomp |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 game | case |
| 27 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seek | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | world | quite last big lad | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | world | world's bow and arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | world not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek | to-infinitive | world not said here | for game | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for game=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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