Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 84
My keen ears overheard all that the tiger-king told you about the goldsmith, who is in the fourth storey.
Who acts: keen ears, tiger king, goldsmith · What happens: overhear, tell, be · To what, where: all, you, fourth storey · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (keen ears, tiger king, goldsmith), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 ears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ears | amod |
| 3 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 overheard | nsubj |
| 4 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 overheard | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 8 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 king | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 tiger | punct |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overheard | advcl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 goldsmith | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goldsmith | det |
| 15 | goldsmith | goldsmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 storey | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 storey | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 storey | cop |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 storey | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 storey | det |
| 21 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 storey | amod |
| 22 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 goldsmith | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overhear | past | My keen ears | all | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | the tiger king | you | about the goldsmith and the fourth storey | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about goldsmith=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | present | the goldsmith and the fourth storey | the fourth storey | 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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