Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 106
The boy then went home to the grain merchant, and at night, when every one had gone to bed, he went to the King's garden and sang his sweet song again.
Who acts: boy, one · What happens: go, sing · To what, where: grain merchant, bed, garden, sweet song
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, one), 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 8 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 merchant | compound |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 gone | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 gone | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 night | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 gone | mark |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 gone | aux |
| 19 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 went | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gone | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 garden | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 King | det |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 garden | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 King | case |
| 29 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sang | cc |
| 31 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | conj |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 song | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 song | amod |
| 34 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sang | obj |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 31 sang | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the boy | the grain merchant | then | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to merchant=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | every one | bed | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | go | past | boy | the King's garden | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to garden=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | boy not said here | boy's sweet song | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 5 | sing | boy | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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