Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 100
Doubting nothing, the beautiful princess complied, when the ogress seized the ring, and reassuming the form of a bee flew away with it to the palace, where the prince was lying nearly on the point of death. "
Who acts: ogress, Doubting, prince · What happens: doubt, comply, seize, reassum, fly away, lie · To what, where: nothing, beautiful princess, ring, form, point, bee
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ogress, Doubting, prince), 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 | Doubting | doubt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 flew | csubj |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 1 Doubting | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 princess | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 princess | amod |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nothing | appos |
| 7 | complied | comply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 princess | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seized | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 seized | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ogress | det |
| 11 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | nsubj |
| 12 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Doubting | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ring | det |
| 14 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seized | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reassuming | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reassuming | cc |
| 17 | reassuming | reassum | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Doubting | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 form | det |
| 19 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reassuming | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bee | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bee | det |
| 22 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 form | nmod |
| 23 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 flew | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 flew | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flew | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 lying | punct |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 35 lying | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 prince | det |
| 33 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lying | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 lying | aux |
| 35 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 palace | acl |
| 36 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 35 lying | advmod |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 point | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 point | det |
| 39 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 lying | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 death | case |
| 41 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 point | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | gerund | nothing | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | |||||
| 2 | comply | participle | the beautiful princess not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize | past | the ogress | the ring | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reassum | gerund | the form of a bee | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fly away | past | Doubting | with Ring; to the palace result; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | ||||
| 6 | lie | past · progressive | the prince | the point of death | nearly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on point=Location | |||
| 7 | form | a bee | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | point | death | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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