Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 21
One day, not long after this, as the Magician was walking in his garden he saw the little girl (as he thought) playing about, and asked her who she was.
Who acts: Magician, Prince · What happens: walk, see, think, play about, ask, be · To what, where: garden, little girl, Magician · 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 (Magician, Prince), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 day | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 long | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 walking | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 walking | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Magician | det |
| 11 | Magician | Magician | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 walking | aux |
| 13 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 garden | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 garden | nmod:poss |
| 16 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 walking | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 girl | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 girl | amod |
| 21 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | advcl |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 25 thought | punct |
| 27 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 thought | xcomp |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 27 playing | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 asked | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 asked | cc |
| 31 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 asked | iobj |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 asked | ccomp |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 who | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 who | cop |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | the Magician | Prince's garden | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Prince | the little girl | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Prince | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | play about | gerund | Prince not said here | about property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | Prince not said here | Magician | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | Magician | 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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