Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 136
On, on they rode, until they reached a village where they stayed the night.
Who acts: arrows · What happens: ride, reach, stay · To what, where: village
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 (arrows), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 rode | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 rode | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rode | nsubj |
| 5 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 reached | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rode | punct |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 reached | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 stayed | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stayed | nsubj |
| 14 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 village | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | arrows = arrow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | arrows = arrow | a village | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent village=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stay | past | arrows = arrow | night | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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