Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 16
Then the little Prince thought, "These must be my parents and my uncles.
Who acts: little Prince, These · What happens: think, be · To what, where: parents · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Prince, These), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Prince | amod |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 parents | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 parents | punct |
| 8 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 parents | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 parents | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 parents | cop |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 thought | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 uncles | cc |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 uncles | nmod:poss |
| 15 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 parents | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the little Prince | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | must | These | my parents and my uncles | tree rules |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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