Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 15
He rode very far, and shot a great many birds and a quantity of deer.
Who acts: man · What happens: ride, shoot · To what, where: great many birds
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 rode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shot | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 shot | cc |
| 7 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rode | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 birds | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birds | amod |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 birds | amod |
| 11 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shot | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 quantity | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 quantity | det |
| 14 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 birds | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 deer | case |
| 16 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 quantity | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | man | far property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past | man not said here | a great many birds and a quantity of deer | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/24/15/