Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 69
He then set out on his journey, and rode on and on till he came to a jungle in which were a tank and shady trees.
Who acts: prince, jungle · What happens: set out, ride, come, be, journey · To what, where: journey, jungle, tank
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, jungle), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADV | _ | 10 rode | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 on | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 on | conj |
| 14 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rode | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 jungle | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 jungle | det |
| 19 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 tank | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tank | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tank | det |
| 24 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jungle | acl:relcl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 trees | cc |
| 26 | shady | shady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 trees | amod |
| 27 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 tank | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | prince | prince's journey | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | ride | past | prince not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | come | past | prince | a jungle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jungle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | a jungle | a tank and shady trees | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | journey | prince | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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