Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 12
The old farmer left him in despair, and entered his house laughing.
Who acts: old farmer · What happens: leave, enter, laugh · To what, where: man, despair, house
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old farmer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmer | amod |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 despair | case |
| 7 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 left | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 entered | cc |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 left | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 entered | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the old farmer | man | despair | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in despair=Location | |||
| 2 | enter | past | the old farmer not said here | man's house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | the old farmer not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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