Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 81
The queen of the fairies, who had never ceased to follow her horse’s tracks, came to the old man’s house and saw Rupsinh lying in the verandah.
Who acts: queen, Rupsinh · What happens: not cease, follow, come, see, lie · To what, where: fairies, tracks, house, Rupsinh, verandah
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 (queen, Rupsinh), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fairies | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fairies | det |
| 5 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 queen | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ceased | punct |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 ceased | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 ceased | advmod |
| 10 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fairies | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 follow | mark |
| 12 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ceased | xcomp |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tracks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 16 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 follow | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 man | case |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 saw | cc |
| 26 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 came | conj |
| 27 | Rupsinh | Rupsinh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 saw | obj |
| 28 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 saw | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 verandah | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 verandah | det |
| 31 | verandah | verandah | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lying | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not cease | past · perfect · passive | the fairies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | to-infinitive | queen's horse's tracks | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the queen of the fairies | the old man's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the queen of the fairies not said here | Rupsinh | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | lie | gerund | Rupsinh not said here | the verandah | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in verandah=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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