Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 130
They released the princess, rubbed some ointment over the scars on her back, and then sat her upon one of their horses behind the prince.
Who acts: horses · What happens: release, rub, sit · To what, where: princess, ointment, scars
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 (horses), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 released | nsubj |
| 2 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princess | det |
| 4 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 released | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rubbed | punct |
| 6 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 released | conj |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 ointment | det |
| 8 | ointment | ointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rubbed | obj |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 scars | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 scars | det |
| 11 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rubbed | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 back | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scars | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sat | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 sat | advmod |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 released | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sat | obj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 sat | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 horses | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 horses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 prince | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 prince | det |
| 27 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 horses | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 released | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | release | past | horses = horse | the princess | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer princess=Source | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | horses = horse not said here | some ointment | the scars on princess's back | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ointment=Theme over scar=Destination | |||
| 3 | sit | past | horses = horse not said here | princess | then | upon one of horses's horses behind the prince | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon one=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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