Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 107
After six months had passed, the dog went by night to the jungle, and thought, "I wonder whether the boy is alive or dead."
Who acts: dog, I, boy · What happens: pass, go, think, wonder, be · To what, where: jungle · 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, I, boy), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dog | det |
| 8 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 jungle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 jungle | det |
| 14 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wonder | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wonder | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wonder | nsubj |
| 21 | wonder | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 22 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 26 alive | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 alive | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 alive | cop |
| 26 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 wonder | ccomp |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 dead | cc |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 alive | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | month | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the dog | the jungle | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the boy | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be in a quote | the boy not said here | 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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