Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 52
When the King returned at evening and asked them why they were so miserable, they said, "Your horse Katar came and tore our clothes, and upset all our things, and we ran away for fear he should kill us."
Who acts: King, Queens, horse, we · What happens: return, ask, be, say, come, tore · To what, where: Queens, clothes, things, us · 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 (King, Queens, horse, we), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 evening | case |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | obj |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 miserable | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 miserable | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 miserable | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 miserable | advmod |
| 14 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 20 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 horse | nmod:poss |
| 21 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 22 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 horse | appos |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 tore | cc |
| 25 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 came | conj |
| 26 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 27 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 25 tore | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 upset | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 upset | cc |
| 30 | upset | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 came | conj |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 things | det:predet |
| 32 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 things | nmod:poss |
| 33 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 upset | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 ran | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 ran | cc |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 ran | nsubj |
| 37 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | conj |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 ran | advmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 fear | case |
| 40 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 ran | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 kill | nsubj |
| 42 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 kill | aux |
| 43 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 fear | acl:relcl |
| 44 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 43 kill | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 46 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the King | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the King not said here | Queens = queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Queens = queen | miserable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Queens = queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | past | Your horse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | tore in a quote | past | Your horse not said here | our clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | upset in a quote | infinitive | Your horse not said here | our things | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thing=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | run away in a quote | past | we | for fear; away property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for fear=Beneficiary | ||||
| 9 | kill in a quote | should | horse | us | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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