Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 51
And learning that he was stopping at the house of an old woman in the city, till the hour for playing chaupur arrived, Sarkap sent slaves to him with trays of sweetmeats and fruit, as to an honoured guest.
Who acts: hour, king, Sarkap · What happens: learn, stop, play, arrive, send, honour · To what, where: house, chaupur, slaves, king
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 (hour, king, Sarkap), 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 | _ | 2 learning | cc |
| 2 | learning | learn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 arrived | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 stopping | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stopping | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stopping | aux |
| 6 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 learning | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stopping | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hour | punct |
| 18 | till | till | ADP | _ | 20 hour | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hour | det |
| 20 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 arrived | nsubj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 playing | mark |
| 22 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 hour | acl |
| 23 | chaupur | chaupur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 playing | obj |
| 24 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sent | punct |
| 26 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | nsubj |
| 27 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 arrived | conj |
| 28 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sent | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sent | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 trays | case |
| 32 | trays | tray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sent | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 sweetmeats | case |
| 34 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 trays | nmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fruit | cc |
| 36 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sweetmeats | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 guest | punct |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 42 guest | case |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 as | fixed |
| 40 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 guest | det |
| 41 | honoured | honour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 guest | amod |
| 42 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | gerund | the hour not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stop | past · progressive | king | the house of a old woman in the city | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | ||||
| 3 | play | gerund | the hour not said here | chaupur | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chaupur=Theme | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | the hour | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | send | past | Sarkap | slaves | king | with trays of sweetmeats and fruit | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent slave=Theme to he=Destination | ||
| 6 | honour | participle | tree rules |
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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