Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 66
He looked round, hoping to see the reality; but seeing no person, he drank the water, and put out his hand to take some more.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: look, hope, see, drink, put out, take · To what, where: reality, person, water, hand, more
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), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looked | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hoping | punct |
| 5 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 looked | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hoping | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reality | det |
| 9 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 drank | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 drank | cc |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 drank | advcl |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 person | det |
| 14 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drank | nsubj |
| 17 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 water | det |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drank | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 drank | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 take | mark |
| 27 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 put | advcl |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 more | det |
| 29 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 take | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Prince | round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hope | gerund | Prince not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the reality | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reality=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | Prince not said here | no person | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer person=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | drink | past | Prince | the water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 6 | put out | participle | Prince not said here | Prince's hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 7 | take | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | some more | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=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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