Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 134
Now the robbers heard the galloping of the horses, and ran out and shot their arrows at the prince and his companions.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: hear, run out, shoot · To what, where: galloping, arrows
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 (robbers), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 robbers | det |
| 3 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 galloping | det |
| 6 | galloping | galloping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 horses | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 horses | det |
| 9 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 galloping | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ran | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ran | cc |
| 12 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 ran | compound:prt |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shot | cc |
| 15 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 heard | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shot | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 prince | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 companions | cc |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 companions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prince | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the robbers | the galloping of the horses | now | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer galloping=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run out | past | the robbers not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot | past | the robbers not said here | horses's arrows | at the prince and Prince's companions | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme at prince=Destination |
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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