Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 7, sentence 33
"Oh!" said Prince Majnun, "I see you are Laili come back to me, but your eyes have grown so wonderfully beautiful, that I fainted when I saw them."
Who acts: Prince, Laili, eyes · What happens: say, see, be, grow, faint · To what, where: you, Prince, eyes · 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 (Prince, Laili, eyes), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | Majnun | Majnun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Prince | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | obj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | cop |
| 14 | Laili | Laili | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | xcomp |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 come | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 grown | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 grown | cc |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 grown | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 grown | aux |
| 24 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | conj |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 26 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 27 beautiful | advmod |
| 27 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grown | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 fainted | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 fainted | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 fainted | nsubj |
| 31 | fainted | faint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 grown | conj |
| 32 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 saw | advmod |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | nsubj |
| 34 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 fainted | advcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 saw | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present | Prince | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Laili | Prince | come property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | grow in a quote | present · perfect | your eyes | beautiful property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | faint in a quote | past | Prince | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | see in a quote | past | Prince | eyes = eye | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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