Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 35
No one had ever been able to ride him; indeed no one could go near him with safety, he was so savage.
Who acts: one, King · What happens: be, ride, go · To what, where: King
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 (one, King), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 able | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | aux |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 able | advmod |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 able | cop |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 ride | mark |
| 8 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ride | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 11 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | aux |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ride | conj |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 go | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 safety | case |
| 19 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 go | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 savage | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 savage | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 savage | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 savage | advmod |
| 24 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 able | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | no one | ever | able property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ride | to-infinitive | no one not said here | King | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | could | no one | near King; with safety; indeed property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with safety=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | past | King | savage 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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