Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 35
The young prince stayed under the tree till it was evening; then he mounted his horse and rode off to the King's palace.
Who acts: young prince, tree, prince · What happens: stay, be, mount, ride off · To what, where: tree, horse, palace
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 (young prince, tree, prince), 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 | 3 prince | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prince | amod |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 11 evening | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 evening | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 evening | cop |
| 11 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 mounted | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 mounted | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mounted | nsubj |
| 15 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mounted | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rode | cc |
| 19 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mounted | conj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 rode | compound:prt |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 palace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rode | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | the young prince | the tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tree | till evening | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | prince | prince's horse | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 4 | ride off | past | prince not said here | the King's palace | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to palace=Trajectory |
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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