Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 70
Next morning they started afresh, and went far, and far, till they came to a jungle in another country, which did not belong to the little prince's father, but to another king.
Who acts: sepoys, country · What happens: start, go, come, not belong · To what, where: country
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, country), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 started | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 went | cc |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 started | conj |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 far | cc |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 went | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 went | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 jungle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 jungle | det |
| 19 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 belong | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 belong | nsubj |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 belong | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 belong | advmod |
| 27 | belong | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 country | acl:relcl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 prince | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 prince | amod |
| 31 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 32 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 31 prince | case |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 belong | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 king | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 king | cc |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 king | case |
| 37 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 king | det |
| 38 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | sepoys = sepoy | morning | to another king; afresh property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | go | past | sepoys = sepoy not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | sepoys = sepoy | another country | to a jungle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | not belong | past · do-support | another country | to the little prince's father | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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