Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 71
He waited a little while, and then shouted; but not getting any reply, he got up and went to the brook.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: wait, shout, not get, get up, go · To what, where: reply, brook
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 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 while | amod |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shouted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shouted | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 shouted | advmod |
| 9 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 getting | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 getting | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 getting | advmod |
| 13 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waited | advcl |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 reply | det |
| 15 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 getting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | parataxis |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 got | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 brook | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 brook | det |
| 24 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Prince | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | past | Prince not said here | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not get | gerund | Prince not said here | any reply | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer reply=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get up | past | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Prince not said here | the brook | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to brook=Initial_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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