Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 112
And when the watchmen in the fields saw the ass, they dared not go near him, taking him for a lion.
Who acts: watchmen · What happens: see, go, take · To what, where: ass, Buddha
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: who acts (watchmen), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 watchmen | det |
| 4 | watchmen | watchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fields | det |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 watchmen | nmod |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ass | det |
| 10 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | nsubj |
| 13 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 dared | advmod |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saw | conj |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taking | punct |
| 19 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 go | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 taking | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 lion | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taking | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the watchmen in the fields | the ass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | past | watchmen = watchman | near Buddha | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near he=Location | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | watchmen = watchman not said here | Buddha | for a lion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Theme for lion=Beneficiary |
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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