Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 81
The merchant's son spoke to the ring, and immediately a beautiful house and a lovely princess with golden hair appeared.
Who acts: son, beautiful house · What happens: speak, appear · 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 (son, beautiful house), 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 merchant | det |
| 2 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 merchant | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | nsubj |
| 5 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 ring | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spoke | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appeared | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appeared | cc |
| 11 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 14 house | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appeared | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 princess | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 17 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 princess | amod |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hair | amod |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 princess | nmod |
| 22 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spoke | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the merchant's son | to the ring | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ring=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | past | a beautiful house and a lovely princess with golden hair | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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