Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 93
In this grand state they travelled to the prince's country, which was not a great many miles off.
Who acts: horses, country · What happens: travel, not be · To what, where: grand state, great many miles
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 (horses, country), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 state | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 state | det |
| 3 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 state | amod |
| 4 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 travelled | nsubj |
| 6 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 country | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 prince | case |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 travelled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 miles | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 miles | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 miles | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 miles | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 miles | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 miles | amod |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 miles | amod |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 country | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | off | off | ADV | _ | 19 miles | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 travelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | horses = horse | this grand state | to the prince's country | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 2 | not is a | past | the prince's country | a great many miles | off property | tree rules |
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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