Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 45
So he brought him up; and then he loved him, and petted him, and the little prince played all about the stable, out of which the horse was never allowed to go.
Who acts: horse, little prince · What happens: bring up, love, pet, play, not allow, go · To what, where: boy, horse, stable
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, little prince), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 brought | compound:prt |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 loved | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 loved | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 loved | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | nsubj |
| 10 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 loved | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 petted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 petted | cc |
| 14 | petted | pet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loved | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 petted | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 played | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 played | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 played | nsubj |
| 21 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 stable | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 stable | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 stable | det |
| 25 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 played | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 allowed | punct |
| 27 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 allowed | obl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 horse | det |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 allowed | aux:pass |
| 33 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 34 allowed | advmod |
| 34 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 played | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 go | mark |
| 36 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 allowed | xcomp |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring up | past | horse | boy | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | love | past | horse | boy | then | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | pet | past | horse not said here | horse | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | play | past | the little prince | the stable | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not allow | past · passive | the horse | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | the horse not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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