Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 17

Nearly all the day long these six princes wandered about looking in vain for game; till at last they grew hungry and thirsty, and could find no water, and they had no food with them.

Who acts: six princes, brothers · What happens: wander, look, grow, find, have · To what, where: vain, last, water, food

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 (six princes, brothers), 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	Nearly	nearly	ADV	_	2 all	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 long	obl:unmarked
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 wandered	advmod
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	8 princes	det
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 princes	nummod
8	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wandered	nsubj
9	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	about	about	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 wandered	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 vain	case
13	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 looking	obl
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 game	case
15	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looking	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 wandered	punct
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 grew	mark
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 last	case
19	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	obl
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grew	nsubj
21	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wandered	advcl
22	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 grew	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 thirsty	cc
24	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hungry	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 find	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 find	cc
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 find	aux
28	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wandered	conj
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 water	det
30	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 find	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wandered	conj
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 food	det
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 them	case
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wander	past	this six princes			long property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	this six princes not said here		vain	for game	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for game=Theme
3	grow	past	brothers = brother		last	hungry property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
4	find	could	this six princes not said here	no water			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic
5	have	past	brothers = brother	no food		with quantities = quantity	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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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