Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 52
The fairies had not seen him, so they dismounted; tied their horses to trees and plunged gaily into the fairy lake.
Who acts: fairies · What happens: not see, dismount, tie, plunge · To what, where: fairies, horses, fairy 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 (fairies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fairies | det |
| 2 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seen | advmod |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dismounted | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 dismounted | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dismounted | nsubj |
| 10 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 tied | punct |
| 12 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dismounted | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tied | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 trees | case |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tied | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 plunged | cc |
| 18 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dismounted | conj |
| 19 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 18 plunged | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 lake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 22 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lake | compound |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plunged | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect · passive | the fairies | king obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dismount | past | fairies = fairy | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tie | past | fairies = fairy not said here | fairies's horses | to trees | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient to tree=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | plunge | past | fairies = fairy not said here | the fairy lake | gaily property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into lake=Initial_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: «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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