Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 53
So the son of seven Queens set off, and soon came to the field where, guarded by eighteen millions of demons, the million-fold rice grew.
Who acts: son, fold rice · What happens: set off, come, guard, grow · To what, where: field
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 (son, fold rice), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 set | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Queens | case |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Queens | nummod |
| 6 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 son | nmod |
| 7 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 set | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 came | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 came | advmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 set | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 field | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 guarded | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 guarded | punct |
| 18 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 field | acl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 millions | case |
| 20 | eighteen | eighteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 millions | nummod |
| 21 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 guarded | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 demons | case |
| 23 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 millions | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 grew | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 rice | det |
| 26 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 fold | nummod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 million | punct |
| 28 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rice | compound |
| 29 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 grew | nsubj |
| 30 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 demons | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the son of seven Queens | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the son of seven Queens not said here | the field | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | guard | participle | by eighteen millions of demons | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | grow | past | the fold rice | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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