Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 48
He looked up and saw a great company of fairies on horseback flying towards the lake.
Who acts: Rupsinh, horseback · What happens: look up, see, fly · To what, where: great company, lake
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rupsinh, horseback), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 looked | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 company | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 company | amod |
| 8 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fairies | case |
| 10 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 company | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 horseback | case |
| 12 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fairies | nmod |
| 13 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 horseback | acl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | past | Rupsinh | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Rupsinh not said here | a great company of fairies on horseback | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer company=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | horseback not said here | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards lake=Destination |
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: «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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