Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 35
And they took out the horses, and removed their chariot, and made way for the king of Benares!
Who acts: gifts · What happens: take out, remove, make · To what, where: horses, chariot, way
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 (gifts), 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 | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 removed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 removed | cc |
| 9 | removed | remove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 chariot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 removed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 king | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Benares | case |
| 20 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | gifts = gift | the horses | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | remove | past | gifts = gift not said here | gifts's chariot | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | gifts = gift not said here | way | for the king of Benares | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent way=Product for king=Beneficiary |
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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