Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 121
The young fellow, who was both clever and handsome, started off whithersoever Kismat might lead him.
Who acts: young fellow, Kismat · What happens: be, start off, lead · To what, where: fellow
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young fellow, Kismat), 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 fellow | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clever | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 clever | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 clever | cop |
| 7 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 8 clever | cc:preconj |
| 8 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 handsome | cc |
| 10 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 clever | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fellow | punct |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 started | compound:prt |
| 14 | whithersoever | whithersoever | ADV | _ | 17 lead | advmod |
| 15 | Kismat | Kismat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 lead | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 lead | aux |
| 17 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 started | advcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lead | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young fellow | clever property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the young fellow not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | start off | past | the young fellow | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | lead | might | Kismat | fellow | whithersoever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
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