Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 20
I went out to enjoy myself with my friends--not to fetch a dinner for my mother!"
Who acts: I · What happens: go out, enjoy, not fetch · To what, where: myself, dinner
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 enjoy | mark |
| 5 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 went | xcomp |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 enjoy | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 enjoy | obl |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 fetch | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fetch | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 fetch | mark |
| 13 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 enjoy | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 dinner | det |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mother | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fetch | obl |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | I | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enjoy | to-infinitive | I not said here | myself | with my friends | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | not fetch | to-infinitive | I not said here | a dinner | for my mother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme for mother=Beneficiary |
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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