Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3, sentence 86
They had thus lived very happily for some time, when one fine day the seventh Prince (Balna's husband) said he would go out hunting, and away he went; and they waited long for him, but he never came back.
Who acts: sons, seventh Prince, Prince · What happens: live, say, go out, hunt, go, wait · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, seventh Prince, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | aux |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 happily | advmod |
| 6 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 said | advmod |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 day | nummod |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 day | amod |
| 14 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 said | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prince | det |
| 16 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Prince | amod |
| 17 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 21 husband | punct |
| 19 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 husband | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Balna | case |
| 21 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Prince | appos |
| 22 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 21 husband | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 go | nsubj |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 go | aux |
| 26 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 26 go | advmod |
| 28 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 go | xcomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 went | cc |
| 31 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 went | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 waited | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 waited | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 waited | nsubj |
| 37 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 lived | parataxis |
| 38 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 37 waited | advmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 him | case |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 waited | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 came | cc |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 came | nsubj |
| 44 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 45 came | advmod |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 waited | conj |
| 46 | back | back | ADV | _ | 45 came | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past · perfect | sons = son | time | happily, thus property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the seventh Prince | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go out | would | Prince | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | Prince not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Prince | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wait | past | sons = son | for Prince; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | not come back | past | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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