Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 82
She tied a magic thread round his ankle and ran to the stable to mount the horse which the king had stolen.
Who acts: queen · What happens: tie, run, mount, steal · To what, where: magic thread, 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 (queen), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 thread | det |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thread | compound |
| 5 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obj |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 ankle | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ankle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ankle | ankle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ran | cc |
| 10 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ran | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 mount | mark |
| 15 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ran | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 horse | det |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mount | obj |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stolen | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 stolen | aux |
| 22 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 horse | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | queen | a magic thread | round Rupsinh's ankle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Patient | |||
| 2 | run | past | queen not said here | to the stable result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result | ||||
| 3 | mount | to-infinitive | queen not said here | the horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | steal | past · perfect · passive | the horse | the king nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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