Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 126
"But where are the horses and the goods?" the vizier's son inquired.
Who acts: horses · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 where | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 where | nsubj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 goods | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goods | det |
| 9 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 6 horses | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 vizier | det |
| 13 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 vizier | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 where | nsubj |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the horses and the goods | where property | tree rules |
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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