Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 44
He was struck by the majesty and grandeur of his person.
Who acts: majesty · What happens: strike · To what, where: Gangazara
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 (majesty), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | aux:pass |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 majesty | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 majesty | det |
| 6 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grandeur | cc |
| 8 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 majesty | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 person | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 person | nmod:poss |
| 11 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grandeur | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · passive | the majesty and grandeur of Gangazara's person | Gangazara | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/44/