Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 137
The following morning they were off again, and asked for Ivory City from every passer-by.
What happens: follow, ask
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: 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 | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 were | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 morning | acl:relcl |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 were | compound:prt |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 were | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 City | case |
| 12 | Ivory | Ivory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 City | compound |
| 13 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 passer | case |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 passer | det |
| 16 | passer | passer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 by | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 passer | punct |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | morning | for Ivory City; from every passer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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