Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 107
He at once entered the building, and telling the beautiful princess of his intense love, entreated her to be his wife.
Who acts: house, telling · What happens: enter, tell, entreat, be, love · To what, where: building, beautiful princess, princess, wife · 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 (house, telling), 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 | 4 entered | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 entered | case |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 entered | advmod |
| 4 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 building | det |
| 6 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 entered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entreated | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 entreated | cc |
| 9 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 entreated | csubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 princess | amod |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 telling | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 love | nmod:poss |
| 15 | intense | intense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 love | amod |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 princess | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 telling | punct |
| 18 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 entered | conj |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entreated | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 wife | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wife | cop |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 wife | nmod:poss |
| 23 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entreated | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | house | the building | once property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme building=Destination | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the beautiful princess of house's intense love | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | entreat | past | telling | princess | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | telling not said here | house's wife | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | love | house | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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