Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 128

The boy went far away from them, and stood a long way off to see what would happen.

Who acts: boy · What happens: go, stand, see, happen · To what, where: long way · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 away	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stood	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stood	cc
10	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 way	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 way	amod
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stood	obj
14	off	off	ADV	_	10 stood	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stood	advcl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 happen	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 happen	aux
19	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	the boy		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	the boy not said here	a long way	off property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
3	see	to-infinitive	the boy not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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