Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 46
When they reached the last custom-house the vizier's son overtook them.
Who acts: City, son · What happens: reach, overtake · To what, where: last custom house, City
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 (City, son), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overtook | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 house | amod |
| 6 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 house | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 custom | punct |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vizier | det |
| 10 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 vizier | case |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overtook | nsubj |
| 13 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overtook | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | City | the last custom house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | overtake | past | the vizier's son | City | 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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