Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 39
Now there happened to be a dense forest near their village, and this they reached early one morning.
Who acts: this · What happens: happen, be, reach · To what, where: dense forest, 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 (this), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 forest | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 forest | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | dense | dense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | conj |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 village | nmod:poss |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forest | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 17 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 one | advmod |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 morning | nummod |
| 19 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | there | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a dense forest | merchants's village | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | this | morning | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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