Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 13
Presently the merchant went to ask his wife about something, and found her lying, to all appearance, dead in the middle of the room, and an arrow fixed in the ground within half a yard of her head.
Who acts: merchant, wife · What happens: go, ask, find, lie, fix · To what, where: wife, arrow, ground
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 (merchant, wife), 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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 merchant | det |
| 3 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 ask | mark |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ask | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 something | case |
| 10 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 ask | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 found | cc |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | obj |
| 15 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 found | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appearance | punct |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 appearance | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 appearance | det |
| 19 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lying | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dead | punct |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 appearance | amod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 middle | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 middle | det |
| 24 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dead | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 middle | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 arrow | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 arrow | cc |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 arrow | det |
| 31 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 appearance | conj |
| 32 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 arrow | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 ground | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ground | det |
| 35 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fixed | obl |
| 36 | within | within | ADP | _ | 39 yard | case |
| 37 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 39 yard | det:predet |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 yard | det |
| 39 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fixed | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 head | case |
| 41 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 head | nmod:poss |
| 42 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 yard | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the merchant | presently property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | the merchant not said here | merchant's wife | about something | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient about something=Topic | |||
| 3 | find | past | the merchant not said here | wife | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | wife not said here | to all appearance and a arrow | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | fix | participle | a arrow not said here | the ground | within half yard of wife's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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