Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 4, sentence 80
Then they let Balna out of the tower; and she, her son, and the seven Princes went to their own country, and lived very happily ever afterwards.
Who acts: birds, head, seven Princes · What happens: let, son, go, live · To what, where: Balna, tower, own country
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 (birds, head, seven Princes), 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 | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 son | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 son | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Princes | det |
| 18 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 Princes | nummod |
| 19 | Princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 went | nsubj |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 son | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 lived | cc |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 happily | advmod |
| 29 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 27 lived | advmod |
| 30 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 31 afterwards | advmod |
| 31 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 27 lived | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | birds = bird | Balna | the tower | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balna=Theme | ||
| 2 | son | head | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | the seven Princes | birds's own country | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to country=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | live | past | birds = bird not said here | afterwards, happily property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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