Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 16
They enjoyed the great feast that had been prepared for them, without a thought of saving any of it to take home to their mother--but the gentle Moon did not forget her.
Who acts: Sun, thought, gentle Moon · What happens: enjoy, prepare, save, take, not forget · To what, where: great feast, any, mother
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sun, thought, gentle Moon), 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 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 2 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feast | amod |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 enjoyed | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 prepared | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 prepared | aux:pass |
| 9 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feast | acl:relcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 prepared | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 13 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 thought | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 thought | det |
| 15 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prepared | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 saving | mark |
| 17 | saving | save | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 thought | acl |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 saving | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 any | nmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 take | mark |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 saving | advcl |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 22 take | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 mother | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 forget | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 forget | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Moon | det |
| 30 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Moon | amod |
| 31 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 forget | nsubj |
| 32 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 forget | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 forget | advmod |
| 34 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 enjoyed | conj |
| 35 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 forget | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past | Sun | the great feast | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feast=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | prepare | past · perfect · passive | the great feast | for Sun | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | save | gerund | a thought not said here | any | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | a thought not said here | to Sun's mother result; home property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to mother=Result | ||||
| 5 | not forget | past · do-support | the gentle Moon | mother | tree rules |
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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