Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 16
That day his six brothers-in-law could find no game, for the beautiful young prince had shot it all.
What happens: find, shoot · To what, where: game, beautiful young prince
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: 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 day | nmod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 law | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 law | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 in | punct |
| 9 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brothers | conj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 game | det |
| 13 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shot | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 shot | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prince | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | amod |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | amod |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 shot | aux |
| 21 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 find | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 shot | obj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 it | det |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | could | no game | day | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent game=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | the beautiful young prince | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination it=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/pg7128/24/16/