Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 20, sentence 61
Immediately on arrival he ran to the palace and informed his father of what he had heard.
Who acts: Father · What happens: run, inform, hear · To what, where: arrival, father
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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 ran | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 arrival | case |
| 3 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ran | nsubj |
| 5 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ran | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 informed | cc |
| 10 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ran | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 informed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 what | case |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 father | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 heard | aux |
| 17 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Father | arrival | to the palace result; immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | |||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | Father not said here | Father's father | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Father | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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