Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 64

The King saw his horse had a boy on his back, though he could not see the boy distinctly.

Who acts: King, horse · What happens: see, have, not see · To what, where: boy, back · 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, horse), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 King	det
2	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 back	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 back	nmod:poss
11	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 see	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 see	advmod
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	_	17 see	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	have	past	King's horse	a boy	King's back		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
3	not see	could	King	the boy		distinctly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boy=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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