Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 110
The prince directed the kotwal and the policeman to the place where he had left the vizier's son, and there they found the fakir with his eyes shut and engaged in prayer.
Who acts: prince, men · What happens: direct, leave, find, engage · To what, where: kotwal, son, prayer
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, men), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 directed | nsubj |
| 3 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kotwal | det |
| 5 | kotwal | kotwal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 directed | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 policeman | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 policeman | det |
| 8 | policeman | policeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kotwal | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 directed | obl |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 left | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 left | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 vizier | det |
| 17 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 vizier | case |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 found | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 found | expl |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 found | nsubj |
| 24 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 directed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fakir | det |
| 26 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shut | nsubj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 eyes | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 fakir | nmod |
| 30 | shut | shut | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 found | ccomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 engaged | cc |
| 32 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 shut | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 prayer | case |
| 34 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 engaged | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 directed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | direct | past | the prince | the kotwal and the policeman | to the place | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent kotwal=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | prince | the vizier's son | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | men = man | there | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | engage | participle | men = man not said here | in prayer goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in prayer=Goal |
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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