Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 60
The following day he hastened back to his own country, taking with him the farmer's daughter.
Who acts: Father · What happens: follow, hasten back, take · To what, where: own country, daughter
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 (Father), 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 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hastened | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hastened | nsubj |
| 5 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 hastened | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 country | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 country | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hastened | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hastened | advcl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 farmer | det |
| 16 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 farmer | case |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hasten back | past | Father | Father's own country | day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to country=Destination | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | Father not said here | the farmer's daughter | with Father | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination |
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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