Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 6
Then he went to the jungle-plain where he had left Katar, who all this time had seemed to be a donkey, and he told Katar everything. "
Who acts: prince, Katar · What happens: go, leave, have, seem, be, tell · To what, where: jungle plain, Katar, donkey, everything · 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 (prince, Katar), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 plain | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 plain | det |
| 6 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 plain | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 jungle | punct |
| 8 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 left | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 left | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 left | aux |
| 12 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 plain | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 left | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 time | det:predet |
| 17 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 time | det |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Katar | parataxis |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | ccomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 donkey | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 donkey | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 donkey | det |
| 24 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 told | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 told | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 told | nsubj |
| 28 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 29 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 everything | compound |
| 30 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 28 told | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 32 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | prince | the jungle plain | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to plain=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | prince | Katar | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent katar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Katar | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seem | past | Katar not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | Katar not said here | a donkey | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | prince | everything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient |
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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