Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 58
Meanwhile the horse had overheard all these orders.
Who acts: horse · What happens: overhear · To what, where: orders
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7128:1645): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 overheard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overheard | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 overheard | aux |
| 5 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 orders | det:predet |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 orders | det |
| 8 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 overheard | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past · perfect | the horse | all orders | meanwhile property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer order=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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