Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 139
The goldsmith knew full well that it was a tiger that killed the king, and not any hunter's hands, since he had heard from Gangazara how he obtained the crown.
Who acts: goldsmith, half, tiger, king · What happens: know, be, kill, hear, obtain · To what, where: hands, tiger, king, Gangazara, crown
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goldsmith, half, tiger, king), 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 goldsmith | det |
| 2 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | xcomp |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 tiger | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tiger | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tiger | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tiger | det |
| 10 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 killed | nsubj |
| 12 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 tiger | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 killed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hands | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hands | cc |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 hands | advmod |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 hunter | det |
| 19 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 hunter | case |
| 21 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 23 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 26 heard | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | aux |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 Gangazara | case |
| 28 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 heard | obl |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 obtained | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 obtained | nsubj |
| 31 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 heard | parataxis |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 crown | det |
| 33 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 obtained | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the goldsmith | any hunter's hands | full, well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is a | past | half | a tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | a tiger | the king | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hear | past · perfect | king | Gangazara | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from gangazara=Source | ||||
| 5 | obtain | past | king | the crown | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
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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