Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 70

He bathed himself and his horse in the tank, and then sat down under a tree. "

Who acts: prince · What happens: bath, sit down · To what, where: prince, tank, tree

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), 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	2 bathed	nsubj
2	bathed	bath	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 bathed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 horse	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 himself	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tank	det
9	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bathed	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sat	advmod
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bathed	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bathed	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 bathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bath	past	prince	prince		the tank			tree rules
2	sit down	past	prince not said here			a tree	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location

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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