Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 94
She also embraced and kissed the princess by way of adding force to her words.
Who acts: woman, way · What happens: embrace, kiss, add, word · To what, where: princess, force
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 (woman, way), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 embraced | nsubj |
| 2 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 embraced | advmod |
| 3 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 kissed | cc |
| 5 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 embraced | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princess | det |
| 7 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kissed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 adding | mark |
| 11 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 way | acl |
| 12 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adding | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 words | nmod:poss |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 adding | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past | woman | vn marry-36.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | kiss | past | woman not said here | the princess | by way | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | add speech: assert | gerund | way not said here | force | to woman's words | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent force=Patient to word=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | word | woman | nom word «communication 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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