Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 21
But this time the cowherd had followed Suri, and had seen the wonderful child and all she did to it.
Who acts: child · What happens: follow, see, do · To what, where: cowherd, wonderful child
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 (child), 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 | _ | 7 followed | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cowherd | det |
| 5 | cowherd | cowherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 followed | aux |
| 7 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | Suri | Suri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 followed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 seen | cc |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 seen | aux |
| 12 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 followed | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seen | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 all | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 seen | conj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 all | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | the cowherd | time | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme suri=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | the wonderful child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | past | child | cowherd | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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