Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 34
When it was midnight, she went to the King's horse called Katar, who was very wicked, and quite untameable.
Who acts: order, cow, Katar · What happens: be, go, call · To what, where: midnight, horse · 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 (order, cow, Katar), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 midnight | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 midnight | cop |
| 4 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 midnight | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 horse | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 King | case |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 horse | acl |
| 14 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wicked | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 wicked | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 wicked | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 wicked | advmod |
| 19 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Katar | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 untameable | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 untameable | cc |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 untameable | advmod |
| 23 | untameable | untameable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 went | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | order | midnight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | past | cow | to the King's horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to horse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | the King's horse not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Katar | wicked property | tree rules |
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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