Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 123
The boy, the grain merchant's servant, was also in the garden: not as a suitor, but looking on with the other servants.
Who acts: boy, suitor · What happens: be, look on · To what, where: garden
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, suitor), 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 | 14 garden | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 servant | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 merchant | det |
| 5 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 merchant | compound |
| 6 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 servant | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 merchant | case |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boy | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 garden | cop |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 garden | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 garden | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 garden | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 suitor | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 suitor | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 suitor | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 suitor | det |
| 19 | suitor | suitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 garden | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looking | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 looking | cc |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 suitor | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 looking | compound:prt |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 servants | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 servants | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 servants | amod |
| 27 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 looking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy and the grain merchant's servant | the garden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look on | gerund | a suitor not said here | with the other servants | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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