Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 27
King Dantal answered, "It is because you are so beautiful.
Who acts: King, turban · What happens: answer, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, turban), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | Dantal | Dantal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 beautiful | punct |
| 6 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 beautiful | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 beautiful | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 beautiful | cop |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | ccomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | King | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | turban | beautiful property | 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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