Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 122
He had been gone some days, when he fell in with an old farmer, who also was on a journey to a certain village.
Who acts: Kismat, old farmer · What happens: go, fall in, be · To what, where: Kismat, journey
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 (Kismat, old farmer), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 gone | aux:pass |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 days | det |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fell | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 farmer | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 farmer | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 farmer | amod |
| 15 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 journey | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 journey | nsubj |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 22 journey | advmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 journey | cop |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 journey | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 journey | det |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 farmer | appos |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 village | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 village | det |
| 25 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 village | amod |
| 26 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 journey | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect · passive | Kismat | day | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | Kismat | with a old farmer | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a old farmer | a journey | to a certain village | 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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