Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 44
At the end of that time the horse thought, "I will see if this child is alive or dead."
Who acts: horse, child · What happens: think, see, be · To what, where: end · 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 (horse, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horse | det |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 alive | mark |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 child | det |
| 17 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 alive | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 alive | cop |
| 19 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 see | ccomp |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 dead | cc |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 alive | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the horse | at the end of that time | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | future | the horse = horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | this child | alive property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | this child not said here | 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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