Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 2
And searching the country through, up to the very boundary, he found no fault-finder, and heard only of his own virtue; and so he turned back from the outer-most boundary, and returned by the high road towards the city.
Who acts: he · What happens: search, find, hear, turn back, return · To what, where: country, fault finder, own virtue, outer most boundary, city
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 (he), 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 searching | cc |
| 2 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 found | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 country | det |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 searching | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADV | _ | 2 searching | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 boundary | punct |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 boundary | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 boundary | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boundary | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 boundary | advmod |
| 11 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 searching | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 searching | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 finder | det |
| 16 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finder | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 fault | punct |
| 18 | finder | finder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 heard | cc |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | conj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 26 virtue | advmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 virtue | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 virtue | amod |
| 26 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 turned | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 turned | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 turned | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 turned | nsubj |
| 31 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 found | parataxis |
| 32 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 turned | advmod |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 boundary | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 boundary | det |
| 35 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 boundary | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 outer | punct |
| 37 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 38 boundary | amod |
| 38 | boundary | boundary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 turned | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 returned | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 returned | cc |
| 41 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 turned | conj |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 road | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 road | det |
| 44 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 road | amod |
| 45 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 returned | obl |
| 46 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 48 city | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 city | det |
| 48 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 returned | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | search | gerund | he not said here | the country | up the boundary; through property | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent country=Location | |||
| 2 | find | past | he | no fault finder | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finder=Topic | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | he not said here | his own virtue | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer virtue=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | turn back | past | he | the outer most boundary | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from boundary=Source | ||||
| 5 | return | participle | he not said here | the city | by the high road | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards city=Initial_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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