Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 85
The boy did so, and his horse instantly became a donkey. "
Who acts: boy, horse · What happens: do, become · To what, where: donkey
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 (boy, 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 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 became | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horse | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 9 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 10 became | advmod |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 donkey | det |
| 12 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the boy | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | past | boy's horse | a donkey | instantly property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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