Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 4
So seeking in country places, he too came to that very spot.
Who acts: Mallika · What happens: seek, come · To what, where: country places, spot
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 (Mallika), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 seeking | advmod |
| 2 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 places | case |
| 4 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 places | compound |
| 5 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 seeking | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 seeking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 spot | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 spot | det |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 spot | advmod |
| 13 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | Mallika not said here | country places | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in place=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Mallika | that spot | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=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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