Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 133
The prince saw his opportunity, and in a moment was riding after him, having the woman behind him.
Who acts: prince · What happens: see, ride, have · To what, where: opportunity, woman
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 (prince), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 opportunity | nmod:poss |
| 5 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 riding | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 riding | cc |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 riding | obl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 riding | aux |
| 12 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | advcl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 riding | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 having | punct |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 riding | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 having | obj |
| 19 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 having | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the prince | Prince's opportunity | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer opportunity=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · progressive | the prince not said here | after Prince; moment | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | the prince not said here | the woman | behind Prince | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=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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