Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 86
She never thought of looking back, but galloped straight off to the elephant mountain.
Who acts: queen · What happens: not think, look back, gallop · To what, where: elephant mountain
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 | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 looking | mark |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 thought | advcl |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 looking | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 galloped | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 galloped | cc |
| 9 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 10 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 11 off | advmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 galloped | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 mountain | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mountain | det |
| 14 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mountain | compound |
| 15 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 galloped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past | queen | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | look back | gerund | queen not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | gallop | past | queen not said here | the elephant mountain | off property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to mountain=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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