Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 103
The King's dog, whose name was Shankar, had followed her to see what she did with the box.
Who acts: dog, Shankar · What happens: be, follow, see, do, name · To what, where: Shankar, dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, Shankar), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Shankar | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 name | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dog | conj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Shankar | cop |
| 9 | Shankar | Shankar | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 followed | punct |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 followed | aux |
| 12 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Shankar | acl |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 followed | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 followed | advcl |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 did | obj |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 did | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 box | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 box | det |
| 21 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 did | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 Shankar | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the King's dog and the King's dog and dog's name's name | Shankar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | past · perfect | Shankar not said here | dog | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Shankar not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | past | dog | with the box | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | name | the King's dog and the King's dog and name's name | nom name «communication 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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