Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 139
He had also an only son called Prince Majnun, who was a handsome boy with white teeth, red lips, blue eyes, red cheeks, red hair, and a white skin.
Who acts: king, Majnun · What happens: have, call, be · To what, where: only son, handsome boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Majnun), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 had | advmod |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 son | det |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 son | acl |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boy | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 boy | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 boy | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 boy | amod |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Majnun | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 teeth | case |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 teeth | amod |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 boy | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lips | punct |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lips | amod |
| 21 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 teeth | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 eyes | punct |
| 23 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 eyes | amod |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 teeth | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 cheeks | punct |
| 26 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cheeks | amod |
| 27 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 teeth | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hair | punct |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hair | amod |
| 30 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teeth | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 skin | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 skin | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 skin | det |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 skin | amod |
| 35 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | king | a only son | a white skin obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a only son not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Majnun Prince | a handsome boy | with white teeth and red lips and blue eyes and red cheeks and red hair | 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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