Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 62

He saw a pretty, clear little brook running along not far from their resting-place, and hearing that its source was not far distant, he started off to find it.

Who acts: Prince, pretty clear little brook, source · What happens: see, run along, not be, start off, find · To what, where: pretty clear little brook, hearing, source

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 (Prince, pretty clear little brook, source), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brook	det
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brook	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pretty	punct
6	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brook	amod
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brook	amod
8	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
9	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 brook	acl
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 running	advmod
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 running	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	17 place	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 place	nmod:poss
15	resting	resting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 place	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 resting	punct
17	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 far	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hearing	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 hearing	cc
20	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 distant	mark
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 source	nmod:poss
23	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 distant	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 distant	cop
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 distant	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 distant	advmod
27	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hearing	acl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 started	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 started	nsubj
30	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 started	compound:prt
32	to	to	PART	_	33 find	mark
33	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 started	xcomp
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 find	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Prince	a pretty clear little brook		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brook=Stimulus
2	run along	gerund	a pretty clear little brook not said here		along, far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not is	past	hearing's source	hearing not said here	distant, far property	tree rules
4	start off	past	Prince			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find	to-infinitive	Prince not said here	source		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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