Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 57
The soldiers took the money and left; they did not, however, go very far, but hid themselves behind rocks and stones, and waited till they were quite sure that the prince did not intend to come back.
Who acts: soldiers, prince · What happens: take, leave, not do, go, hide, wait · To what, where: money, soldiers, rocks
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 (soldiers, prince), 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 soldiers | det |
| 2 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 money | det |
| 5 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 did | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 did | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 go | advcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 did | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 13 | however | however | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 however | punct |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 far | advmod |
| 17 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 go | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hid | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 hid | cc |
| 20 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 hid | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 rocks | case |
| 23 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 hid | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 stones | cc |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 rocks | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 waited | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 waited | cc |
| 28 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 33 sure | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sure | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sure | cop |
| 32 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 33 sure | advmod |
| 33 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 waited | conj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 intend | mark |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 prince | det |
| 36 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 intend | nsubj |
| 37 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 intend | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 intend | advmod |
| 39 | intend | intend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sure | ccomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 come | mark |
| 41 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 intend | xcomp |
| 42 | back | back | ADV | _ | 41 come | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the soldiers | the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the soldiers not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not do | past | soldiers = soldier | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | far, however property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide | past | the soldiers not said here | soldiers = soldier | rocks and stones | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient behind rock=Location | |||
| 6 | wait | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | is | past | soldiers = soldier | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | not intend | past · do-support | the prince | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | come back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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