Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 125
The princess recognised the cat, and informed it of all that had happened to her since she had left them.
Who acts: princess, all · What happens: recognise, inform, happen, leave · To what, where: cat, window, things · 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 (princess, all), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cat | det |
| 5 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 informed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 informed | cc |
| 8 | informed | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognised | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 informed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 14 happened | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 happened | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 happened | aux |
| 14 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 informed | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 happened | conj |
| 17 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 left | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | aux |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 happened | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the princess | the cat | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cat=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | inform speech: other | past | the princess not said here | window | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | all | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | princess | things = thing | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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