Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 133
The eldest son of the king of the rats was about to be married.
Who acts: eldest son · What happens: be, marry
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 (eldest son), 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 | 3 son | det |
| 2 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 about | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rats | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rats | det |
| 9 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 king | nmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 about | cop |
| 11 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 married | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 married | aux:pass |
| 14 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 about | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the eldest son of the king of the rats | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | the eldest son of the king of the rats not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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