Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 4
Then they both went together to the wide plain, and there the dog brought up the boy.
Who acts: they, dog · What happens: go together, bring up · To what, where: wide plain, boy
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 (they, dog), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 went | advmod |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 plain | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plain | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plain | amod |
| 9 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brought | cc |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 brought | expl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 brought | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go together | past | they | the wide plain | then | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to plain=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | bring up | past | the dog | the boy | there | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
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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