Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 44
The merchants now mourned their fate.
Who acts: merchants, traders · What happens: mourn, fate · To what, where: fate
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 (merchants, traders), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 merchants | det |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mourned | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 mourned | advmod |
| 4 | mourned | mourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 fate | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mourned | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mourned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mourn | past | the merchants | traders's fate | now | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fate | traders = trader | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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