Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 132

He at once mounted his horse and laid hold of the halter of one of the other horses, and then beckoning to the prince to do likewise, he rode off.

Who acts: son · What happens: mount, lay, beckon, do, ride off, hold · To what, where: horse, hold, prince, halter

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 (son), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mounted	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 mounted	obl
4	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mounted	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laid	cc
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
9	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 halter	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 halter	det
12	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 halter	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 horses	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horses	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 horses	amod
18	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 beckoning	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 beckoning	cc
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 beckoning	advmod
22	beckoning	beckon	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 laid	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 prince	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 prince	det
25	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 beckoning	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 beckoning	acl
28	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	27 do	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rode	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rode	nsubj
31	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mounted	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 rode	compound:prt
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	son	son's horse				vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme at once=Destination
2	lay	past	son not said here	hold of the halter of one of the other horses				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result
3	beckon	gerund	son not said here		the prince	then		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient
4	do	to-infinitive					likewise property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	ride off	past	son					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
6	hold			the halter of one of the other horses				nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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