Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 131
Away they rode fast and far, and by the morning were able to rest and talk over their plans in safety.
Who acts: horses · What happens: ride, be, rest, talk, plan · To what, where: plans, safety
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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 3 rode | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 far | cc |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 fast | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 able | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 able | cc |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 morning | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 morning | det |
| 11 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 able | obl |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rode | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rest | mark |
| 15 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 talk | cc |
| 17 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rest | conj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 20 plans | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 plans | nmod:poss |
| 20 | plans | plan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 talk | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 safety | case |
| 22 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 plans | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | horses = horse | away, fast property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | horses = horse not said here | morning | able property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rest | to-infinitive | horses = horse not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | talk | infinitive | horses = horse not said here | horses's plans in safety | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | plan | horses = horse | safety | nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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