Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 67
When it was dinner-time he took the saucepan of pilaw and went out to eat it by the stream.
Who acts: thankfulness, prince · What happens: be, take, go out, eat · To what, where: dinner time, saucepan, thankfulness
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 (thankfulness, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 time | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 4 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinner | punct |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 saucepan | det |
| 10 | saucepan | saucepan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 pilaw | case |
| 12 | pilaw | pilaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saucepan | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 went | cc |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 went | xcomp |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 stream | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stream | det |
| 21 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 eat | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | thankfulness | dinner time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | prince | the saucepan of pilaw | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saucepan=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go out | past | prince not said here | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | prince not said here | thankfulness | by the stream | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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