Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 108

And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground.

Who acts: Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse, thunder · What happens: journey, come, seek, find, save, lay · To what, where: shelter, old graveyard, ground · 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 (Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse), 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	_	6 came	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 journeyed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 journeyed	nsubj
4	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	advcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 journeyed	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 storm	det
8	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 storm	amod
9	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 thunder	case
11	thunder	thunder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 storm	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lightning	cc
13	lightning	lightning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thunder	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct
15	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 sought	mark
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 so	fixed
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 sought	nsubj
18	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
19	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sought	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 found	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 found	cc
22	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 save	nsubj
24	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 found	ccomp
25	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 graveyard	det
26	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 graveyard	amod
27	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 save	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 lay	advmod
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 corpse	det
31	headless	headless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 corpse	amod
32	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	nsubj
33	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 save	advcl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	36 ground	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 ground	det
36	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	journey	past	Rasalu		there	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a fierce storm of thunder and lightning			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	seek	past	Rasalu	shelter		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
4	find	past	a fierce storm of thunder and lightning not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	save	infinitive	none	a old graveyard		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graveyard=Theme
6	lay	present	a headless corpse		the ground	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination
7	storm		thunder and lightning			nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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