Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 105
So they made a goodly company, and Queen Lona, when she saw them going, watched them from her window till she saw nothing but a cloud of dust on the horizon; then she bowed her head on her hands and wept, saying:
Who acts: horses, Queen · What happens: make, see, go, watch, bow, weep · To what, where: goodly company, horses, window, nothing, head, hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses, Queen), 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 | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 company | det |
| 5 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 company | amod |
| 6 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 9 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | Lona | Lona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Queen | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 saw | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | obj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 watched | punct |
| 18 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 watched | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 window | nmod:poss |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 watched | obl |
| 23 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 25 saw | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 saw | nsubj |
| 25 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 watched | advcl |
| 26 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 25 saw | obj |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 cloud | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cloud | det |
| 29 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nothing | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 dust | case |
| 31 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cloud | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 horizon | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 horizon | det |
| 34 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dust | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 bowed | punct |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 bowed | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bowed | nsubj |
| 38 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 head | nmod:poss |
| 40 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bowed | obj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 hands | case |
| 42 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 hands | nmod:poss |
| 43 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 bowed | obl |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 wept | cc |
| 45 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 saying | punct |
| 47 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 45 wept | advcl |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | horses = horse | a goodly company | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset company=Product | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Queen | horses = horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | horses = horse not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | watch | past | horses = horse not said here | horses = horse | Queen's window | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | past | Queen | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | bow | past | Queen | Queen's head | Queen's hands | then | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic | ||
| 7 | weep | past | horses = horse not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | say speech: assert | gerund | horses = horse not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | cloud | dust on the horizon | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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