Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 71
He grew up in due course; and when he was sixteen years old, went to Takkasila, and became accomplished in all arts.
Who acts: datta · What happens: grow up, be, go, accomplish · To what, where: due course, Takkasila, arts
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 (datta), 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 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 grew | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 course | case |
| 5 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 course | amod |
| 6 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 old | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 old | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | cop |
| 12 | sixteen | sixteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 old | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 went | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 old | punct |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 Takkasila | case |
| 18 | Takkasila | Takkasila | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 accomplished | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 accomplished | cc |
| 21 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 22 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 grew | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 arts | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 arts | det |
| 25 | arts | art | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 accomplished | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | datta | due course | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in course=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | datta | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go | past | datta not said here | Takkasila | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to takkasila=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | accomplish | past · passive | datta not said here | all arts | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING» |
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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