Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 142
And," he said, taking the King to Katar, "do you know whose horse that is?"
Who acts: dog, you, horse · What happens: say, take, know, be · To what, where: King, Katar, horse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 said | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 King | det |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Katar | case |
| 11 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 horse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 know | obj |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 is | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 horse | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | gerund | dog not said here | the King | Katar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to katar=Destination | |||
| 3 | know | present · do-support | you | horse | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | be | present | horse | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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