Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 46
So the King's son went out to gather cow-dung, and when he had collected some he brought it in.
Who acts: son, some · What happens: go out, gather, collect, bring in · To what, where: cow dung, dung
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 (son, some), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 King | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 gather | mark |
| 9 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 went | xcomp |
| 10 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dung | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 cow | punct |
| 12 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gather | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 collected | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 collected | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 collected | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 collected | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 collected | aux |
| 18 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 went | parataxis |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | nsubj |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 collected | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 brought | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 brought | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the King's son | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gather | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | cow dung | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dung=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collect | past · perfect | son | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | bring in | past | some | dung | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Asset |
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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