Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 70
When the vizier's son returned, and found the fire lighted, the horses securely fastened, and the bags of muhrs lying altogether in a heap, but no prince, he did not know what to think.
Who acts: son, horses, muhrs, bags · What happens: return, find, light, fasten, lie, not know · To what, where: fire, heap · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (son, horses, muhrs, bags), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 returned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 vizier | det |
| 3 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 vizier | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obj |
| 12 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fire | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fastened | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 horses | det |
| 15 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fastened | nsubj |
| 16 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 17 fastened | advmod |
| 17 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 know | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bags | det |
| 21 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 know | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 muhrs | case |
| 23 | muhrs | muhr | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 bags | nmod |
| 24 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 muhrs | acl |
| 25 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 24 lying | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 heap | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 heap | det |
| 28 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lying | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 know | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 know | cc |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 32 prince | det |
| 32 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 know | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 prince | punct |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 know | nsubj |
| 35 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 know | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 know | advmod |
| 37 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 fastened | conj |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 40 think | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 think | mark |
| 40 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 know | ccomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the vizier's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the fire | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Topic | |||||
| 3 | light | participle | the fire not said here | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fasten | past | the horses | securely property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | muhrs not said here | a heap | altogether property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in heap=Location | |||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | the bags of muhrs | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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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