Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 95

The following night, on the return of the prince from his visit to Gulizar, he and the vizier's son, taking the horses and bags of muhrs, went to a graveyard about a mile or so distant.

Who acts: son, prince · What happens: follow, take, go, return, visit · To what, where: horses, graveyard, visit

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 (son, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 night	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 night	amod
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 return	punct
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 return	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 return	det
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 night	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 prince	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 prince	det
10	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	nmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 visit	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 visit	nmod:poss
13	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	nmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 Gulizar	case
15	Gulizar	Gulizar	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 visit	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 night	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 son	nsubj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 son	cc
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 vizier	det
20	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 vizier	case
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taking	punct
24	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 son	acl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 horses	det
26	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 taking	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bags	cc
28	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 horses	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 muhrs	case
30	muhrs	muhr	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bags	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 went	punct
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 son	parataxis
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 graveyard	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 graveyard	det
35	graveyard	graveyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 went	obl
36	about	about	ADP	_	38 mile	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 mile	det
38	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 graveyard	nmod
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 distant	cc
40	so	so	ADV	_	41 distant	advmod
41	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 went	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	take	gerund	the vizier's son not said here	the horses and bags of muhrs			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination
3	go	past			a graveyard about a mile		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to graveyard=Initial_Location
4	return		the prince		prince's visit to Gulizar		nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent from=place
5	visit		prince			to Gulizar	nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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