Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 62
Now Katar was a fairy-horse, and came from the fairies' country, so he could get anything he wanted; but neither the King nor any of his people knew this.
Who acts: Katar, fairy horse, King · What happens: be, come, get, want, know · To what, where: fairy horse, country, anything, this
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 (Katar, fairy horse, King), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Katar | advmod |
| 2 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 horse | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 horse | det |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horse | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 fairy | punct |
| 7 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 horse | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 country | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fairies | det |
| 13 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 country | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 13 fairies | case |
| 15 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 came | conj |
| 21 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 20 get | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wanted | nsubj |
| 23 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 anything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 knew | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 knew | cc |
| 26 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 28 King | cc:preconj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 King | det |
| 28 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 30 any | cc |
| 30 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 King | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 people | nmod:poss |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 any | nmod |
| 34 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 horse | conj |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 knew | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 horse | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Katar | a fairy horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a fairy horse not said here | the fairies's country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | could | Katar | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | want | past | Katar | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | know | past | the King | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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