Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 85
However, they all set out for the hunt, and fixed their meeting-place at a certain pool.
Who acts: people · What happens: set out, fix · To what, where: meeting place, certain 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 (people), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 hunt | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hunt | det |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fixed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fixed | cc |
| 12 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 meeting | punct |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fixed | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 pool | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 pool | det |
| 19 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pool | amod |
| 20 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fixed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | people | for the hunt; all, however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fix | past | people not said here | people's meeting place | a certain pool | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent place=Theme at pool=Value |
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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