Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 50
But the poison of the fairy lake was killing the poor horse and after trying feebly to answer to the spur, it fell down dead.
Who acts: poison · What happens: kill, try, answer, fall down · To what, where: poor horse
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 (poison), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 killing | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 poison | det |
| 3 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lake | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lake | compound |
| 7 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poison | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 killing | aux |
| 9 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trying | cc |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 trying | mark |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 killing | conj |
| 16 | feebly | feebly | ADV | _ | 15 trying | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 answer | mark |
| 18 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 spur | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 spur | det |
| 21 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answer | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fell | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fell | nsubj |
| 24 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trying | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADV | _ | 24 fell | advmod |
| 26 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 fell | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past · progressive | the poison of the fairy lake | the poor horse | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the poison of the fairy lake not said here | feebly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the poison of the fairy lake not said here | to the spur | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to spur=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | fall down | past | poison | dead, down property | vn occur-48.3 «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: «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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