Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 57
He took away with him the two horses, and he took away the two tigers, and he took away the two hounds, and he took away the two simurgs, and with them he set out for another country.
Who acts: son · What happens: take away, set out · To what, where: two horses, two tigers, two hounds, two simurgs
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), 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 | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 horses | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 horses | nummod |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tigers | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 tigers | nummod |
| 16 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hounds | det |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hounds | nummod |
| 24 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 took | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 took | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 took | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 took | nsubj |
| 28 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 29 | away | away | ADP | _ | 28 took | compound:prt |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 simurgs | det |
| 31 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 simurgs | nummod |
| 32 | simurgs | simurg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 took | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 set | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 set | cc |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 them | case |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 set | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 set | nsubj |
| 38 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 took | conj |
| 39 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 set | compound:prt |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 country | case |
| 41 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 42 country | det |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take away | past | son | the two horses | with Man; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 2 | take away | past | son | the two tigers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take away | past | son | the two hounds | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take away | past | son | the two simurgs | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent simurg=Theme | ||||
| 5 | set out | past | son | with simurgs = simurg; for another country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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