Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 106
The prince was almost mad with joy when he heard these words, and was so desirous of seeing the beautiful princess, that he immediately spoke to the ring, and the house with its fair occupant descended in the midst of the palace garden.
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, hear, see, speak, descend · To what, where: words, beautiful princess, house, midst · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | cop |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 mad | advmod |
| 5 | mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mad | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 heard | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | parataxis |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desirous | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 desirous | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 desirous | cop |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 desirous | advmod |
| 17 | desirous | desirous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mad | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 seeing | mark |
| 19 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 desirous | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 21 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 princess | amod |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 seeing | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spoke | punct |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 spoke | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 spoke | nsubj |
| 26 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 27 spoke | advmod |
| 27 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mad | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 ring | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ring | det |
| 30 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spoke | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 descended | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 descended | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 house | det |
| 34 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 descended | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 occupant | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 occupant | nmod:poss |
| 37 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 occupant | amod |
| 38 | occupant | occupant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 house | nmod |
| 39 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mad | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 midst | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 midst | det |
| 42 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 descended | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 garden | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 garden | det |
| 45 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 garden | compound |
| 46 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 midst | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 mad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the prince | with joy; almost, mad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | prince | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the prince not said here | desirous property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | gerund | the prince not said here | the beautiful princess | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | speak speech: other | past | prince | to the ring; immediately property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ring=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | descend | participle · passive | the house with Ring's fair occupant | the midst of the palace garden | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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