Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 16
But on inquiry he found that the ages of both were equal.
Who acts: charioteer, ages · What happens: find, be · To what, where: inquiry · 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 (charioteer, ages), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 found | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 inquiry | case |
| 3 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 equal | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ages | det |
| 8 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 equal | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 both | case |
| 10 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 ages | nmod |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 equal | cop |
| 12 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | charioteer | inquiry | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ages of both | equal property | tree rules |
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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