Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 69

The horse ate grass, and the boy wild fruits which he found in the jungle.

Who acts: horse, boy, wild fruits · What happens: eat, fruit, find · To what, where: grass, jungle

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, boy, wild fruits), 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 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fruits	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fruits	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 boy	det
8	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fruits	nsubj
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fruits	amod
10	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ate	parataxis
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 found	nsubj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fruits	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 jungle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 jungle	det
16	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	eat	past	the horse	grass		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	fruit		the boy			tree rules
3	find	past	wild fruits		the jungle	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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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