Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 83
And finding no fault-finder there, he sought among those who lived outside the city, in the suburbs, at the four gates.
Who acts: hall · What happens: find, seek, live · To what, where: fault finder, suburbs, city
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 (hall), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 finding | cc |
| 2 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 sought | advcl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 finder | det |
| 4 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 finder | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 fault | punct |
| 6 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 finding | obj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 finder | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 finding | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 sought | nsubj |
| 10 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 those | case |
| 12 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 sought | obl |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 those | acl:relcl |
| 15 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lived | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 suburbs | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 suburbs | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 suburbs | det |
| 21 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sought | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 gates | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 gates | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 gates | det |
| 25 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 gates | nummod |
| 26 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | hall not said here | no fault finder | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finder=Topic | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | hall | the suburbs | among those; at the four gates | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among that=Location | |||
| 3 | live | past | the city | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside city=Location |
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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