Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 16
The neighbours quickly gathered, and the servants came running upstairs to see what was the matter.
Who acts: neighbours, servants · What happens: gather, come, run, see, be · To what, where: matter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (neighbours, servants), 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 neighbours | det |
| 2 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 gathered | advmod |
| 4 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathered | conj |
| 10 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 11 | upstairs | upstairs | ADV | _ | 10 running | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 running | advcl |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 matter | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | past | the neighbours | quickly property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the servants | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | the servants not said here | upstairs property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the servants not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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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