Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 37
In a certain village there lived ten cloth merchants, who always went about together.
Who acts: ten cloth merchants · What happens: live, go about · To what, where: ten cloth merchants, certain village
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 (ten cloth merchants), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 village | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 village | det |
| 3 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 village | amod |
| 4 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 merchants | nummod |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 merchants | compound |
| 9 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lived | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 went | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 went | advmod |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 merchants | acl:relcl |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 together | advmod |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | ten cloth merchants | a certain village; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme merchant=Location | ||||
| 2 | go about | past | ten cloth merchants | always, together property | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=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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