Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 146
At the entrance of the forest he told all to the people thereabout; and went on to Benares, armed with his five weapons.
Who acts: man · What happens: tell, go on · To what, where: entrance, Benares · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 entrance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 entrance | det |
| 3 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entrance | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 thereabout | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 thereabout | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thereabout | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 thereabout | compound |
| 13 | thereabout | thereabout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | ccomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | parataxis |
| 17 | on | on | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Benares | case |
| 19 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 armed | punct |
| 21 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 went | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 weapons | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 weapons | nummod |
| 25 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 armed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | man | the entrance of the forest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go on | past | Benares | vn function-105.2.1 «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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