Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 37
Now a servant of the king who had several times overheard Gangazara's cries, reported the matter to him.
Who acts: king, servant, Gangazara · What happens: have, overhear, report, cry · To what, where: cries, matter, servant
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, servant, Gangazara), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 overheard | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overheard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 servant | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 times | amod |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Gangazara | Gangazara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cries | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Gangazara | case |
| 14 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 overheard | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reported | punct |
| 16 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 overheard | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 matter | det |
| 18 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reported | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reported | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 overheard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the king | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overhear | past | a servant of the king | Gangazara's cries | now | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | report | past | a servant of the king not said here | the matter | servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 4 | cry | Gangazara | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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