Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 66
So the King's son started off to the city to see the sights, and arrived at a pool.
Who acts: son · What happens: start off, see, arrive · To what, where: sights, pool
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 started | 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 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 started | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sights | det |
| 14 | sights | sight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 arrived | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrived | cc |
| 17 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 pool | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pool | det |
| 20 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 arrived | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the King's son | to the city | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the King's son not said here | the sights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | arrive | past | the King's son not said here | a pool | 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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