Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 48
At the end of another year, when the boy was five years old, Katar brought him up again, caressed him, loved him, and let him play about the stable as he had done a year before.
Who acts: boy, Katar · What happens: be, bring up, caress, love, let, play · To what, where: end, boy, Katar
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 (boy, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 old | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 year | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 year | det |
| 6 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 old | punct |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 14 old | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 old | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | cop |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 old | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 brought | punct |
| 16 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 brought | nsubj |
| 17 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 brought | obj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 brought | compound:prt |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 brought | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 caressed | punct |
| 22 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 brought | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 caressed | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 loved | punct |
| 25 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 caressed | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 loved | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 let | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 let | cc |
| 29 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 old | parataxis |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 let | obj |
| 31 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 let | xcomp |
| 32 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 stable | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stable | det |
| 34 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 play | obl |
| 35 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 done | mark |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 done | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 done | aux |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 play | advcl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 year | det |
| 40 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 done | obl:unmarked |
| 41 | before | before | ADV | _ | 38 done | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | at the end of another year; year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring up | past | Katar | boy | again | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 3 | caress | past | Katar not said here | Katar | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | love | past | Katar not said here | Katar | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | let | infinitive | Katar | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | play | infinitive | Katar not said here | about the stable | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | do | past · perfect | Katar | year | before property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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