Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 41
On this the second ant let go and did not rob the first, but went off to where the King's sons were eating their food.
Who acts: you, sons · What happens: go, not rob, go off, eat · To what, where: second ant, first, food
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 (you, sons), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 ant | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 ant | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ant | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 ant | amod |
| 5 | ant | ant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 6 | let | let | CCONJ | _ | 7 go | cc |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rob | cc |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rob | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 rob | advmod |
| 11 | rob | rob | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 first | det |
| 13 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 rob | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 went | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 25 eating | mark |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 eating | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 sons | nmod:poss |
| 22 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 eating | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 eating | aux |
| 25 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 went | advcl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 food | nmod:poss |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eating | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the second ant | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ant=Location | ||||
| 2 | not rob | past · do-support | you not said here | the first | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent first=Source | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | you not said here | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | eat | past · progressive | the King's sons | children's food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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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