Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 38
The instrument had a superior tone and delighted all who heard it.
Who acts: instrument · What happens: have, hear · To what, where: superior tone, tone
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 (instrument), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 instrument | det |
| 2 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tone | det |
| 5 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tone | amod |
| 6 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 all | cc |
| 8 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 all | amod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 tone | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 all | acl:relcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the instrument | a superior tone all | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | tone | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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