Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 84
Prince Majnun was in great sorrow and grief when he saw his dear Laili turned into a little heap of ashes; and he went straight home to his father, and for a long, long time he would not be comforted.
Who acts: Majnun, dear Laili · What happens: be, see, turn, go, not comfort · To what, where: great sorrow, little heap, Majnun
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Majnun, dear Laili), 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 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Majnun | nmod:desc |
| 2 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sorrow | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sorrow | case |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sorrow | amod |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Majnun | appos |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grief | cc |
| 8 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sorrow | conj |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Laili | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Laili | amod |
| 14 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 heap | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 heap | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heap | amod |
| 19 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turned | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ashes | case |
| 21 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 heap | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | parataxis |
| 26 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 27 home | advmod |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 25 went | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 father | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 comforted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 comforted | cc |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 time | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 time | det |
| 35 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 time | amod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 long | punct |
| 37 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 time | amod |
| 38 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 comforted | obl |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 comforted | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 43 comforted | advmod |
| 42 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 comforted | aux:pass |
| 43 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 went | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | great sorrow and grief | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Majnun Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | Majnun's dear Laili | a little heap of ashes | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into heap=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Majnun | to Majnun's father; home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | not comfort | would · passive | Majnun | time | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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