Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 73
Seeing these, he went back at once for the money and the horses, and bringing them with him, he tracked the prince to the lake, where he found him lying to all appearance dead.
Who acts: Prince, person · What happens: see, go back, bring, track, find, lie · To what, where: these, horses, prince, lake, person
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, person), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 2 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 money | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 money | det |
| 11 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 horses | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horses | det |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 money | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bringing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bringing | cc |
| 17 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 went | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bringing | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bringing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 tracked | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tracked | nsubj |
| 23 | tracked | track | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tracked | obj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 lake | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lake | det |
| 28 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tracked | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 found | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 found | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | nsubj |
| 32 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 tracked | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 found | obj |
| 34 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 found | xcomp |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 appearance | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 appearance | det |
| 37 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lying | obl |
| 38 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lying | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Prince not said here | these | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go back | past | Prince | for the money and the horses | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | gerund | Prince not said here | horses = horse | with Prince | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 4 | track | past | Prince | the prince | the lake | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prince=Theme to lake=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | find | past | Prince | person | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | person not said here | to all appearance | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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