Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 68
He looked around as before, and this time discovered a fairy sitting by the bank on the opposite side of the lake.
Who acts: Prince, time · What happens: look around, discover, sit · To what, where: fairy, opposite side
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, time), 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 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 before | case |
| 5 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 looked | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 discovered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 discovered | cc |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | nsubj |
| 10 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fairy | det |
| 12 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 discovered | obj |
| 13 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 discovered | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 side | det |
| 19 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 side | amod |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sitting | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 side | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | Prince | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | this time | a fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | this time not said here | the opposite side of the lake | by the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bank=Location |
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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