Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 2
The watchmen in the field dared not go up to him; but going home, they published the news.
Who acts: watchmen · What happens: not dare, not go up, go, publish · To what, where: hawker, news
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 watchmen | det |
| 2 | watchmen | watchman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dared | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 watchmen | nmod |
| 6 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 dared | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 dared | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 go | compound:prt |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 going | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 going | cc |
| 14 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dared | conj |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 going | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 published | punct |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 published | nsubj |
| 18 | published | publish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dared | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 news | det |
| 20 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 published | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dare | past | the watchmen in the field | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not go up | infinitive | the watchmen in the field not said here | hawker | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | the watchmen in the field not said here | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | publish | past | watchmen = watchman | the news | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Result |
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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