Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 65
The sepoys tried in vain to shoot the horse; he galloped much too fast; and at last they were all scattered over the plain.
Who acts: sepoys, horse · What happens: try, shoot, gallop, scatter · To what, where: vain, horse, sepoys, last
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 (sepoys, 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 sepoys | det |
| 2 | sepoys | sepoy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vain | case |
| 5 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tried | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 shoot | mark |
| 7 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 vain | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shoot | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 galloped | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 galloped | nsubj |
| 12 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 12 galloped | advmod |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 fast | advmod |
| 15 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 galloped | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 scattered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 scattered | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 scattered | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 scattered | aux:pass |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 scattered | advmod |
| 23 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 tried | conj |
| 24 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 plain | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 plain | det |
| 26 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 scattered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the sepoys | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vain=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | shoot | to-infinitive | the sepoys not said here | the horse | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gallop | past | horse | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | scatter | past · passive | sepoys = sepoy | last | over the plain; all property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: subject=Theme at last=Destination |
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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