Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 84
But when he found she was neither ill nor in trouble, he was angry, and said to her, "Twice I have left my hunting and lost my game to come to you when you did not need me.
Who acts: King, gardener, I, my · What happens: find, be, say, leave, lose, come · To what, where: gardener, hunting, game, me · 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 (King, gardener, I, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 found | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | advcl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ill | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ill | cop |
| 7 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 ill | cc:preconj |
| 8 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | ccomp |
| 9 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 trouble | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 trouble | case |
| 11 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ill | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 angry | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 angry | cop |
| 15 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 left | punct |
| 23 | Twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 left | advmod |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 left | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | aux |
| 26 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 said | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hunting | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 left | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lost | cc |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 left | conj |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 game | nmod:poss |
| 32 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lost | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 come | mark |
| 34 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 lost | advcl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 you | case |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 come | obl |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 need | advmod |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 need | nsubj |
| 39 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 need | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 need | advmod |
| 41 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 come | advcl |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 need | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | gardener | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | King | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | gardener | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | present · perfect | I | my hunting | twice property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunting=Theme | |||
| 6 | lose in a quote | past | I not said here | my game | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | gardener | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | not need in a quote | past · do-support | gardener | me | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 9 | hunt in a quote | my | nom hunting «act 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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