Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 110
At that time a hawker used to go from place to place, trafficking in goods carried by an ass.
What happens: use, go, traffic, carry · To what, where: hawker, place, goods
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hawker | det |
| 5 | hawker | hawker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 hawker | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 place | case |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trafficking | punct |
| 14 | trafficking | traffic | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 go | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 goods | case |
| 16 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 trafficking | obl |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 goods | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 ass | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ass | det |
| 20 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | a hawker not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | place | to place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location to place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | traffic | gerund | goods | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | carry | participle | goods not said here | by a ass | vn carry-11.4 «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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