Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 96
She returned the ogress's embrace, and invited her to come and stay in the house as long as she could, and treated her with such honour and attention, that the ogress thought to herself, "I shall soon accomplish my errand."
Who acts: princess, ogress · What happens: return, invite, come, stay, treat, think · To what, where: embrace, princess, house, errand · 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, ogress), 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 | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ogress | det |
| 4 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 embrace | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 ogress | case |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 invited | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 invited | cc |
| 9 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 invited | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 invited | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stay | cc |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 come | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 house | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 house | det |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stay | obl |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 stay | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 could | mark |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 could | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 long | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 treated | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 treated | cc |
| 25 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | parataxis |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 treated | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 honour | case |
| 28 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 honour | amod |
| 29 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 treated | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 attention | cc |
| 31 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 honour | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 thought | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 thought | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ogress | det |
| 35 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 thought | nsubj |
| 36 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 treated | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 herself | case |
| 38 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 thought | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 accomplish | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 accomplish | punct |
| 41 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 accomplish | nsubj |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 accomplish | aux |
| 43 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 accomplish | advmod |
| 44 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 thought | ccomp |
| 45 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 errand | nmod:poss |
| 46 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 accomplish | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 accomplish | punct |
| 48 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 accomplish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | princess | the ogress's embrace | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embrace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | princess not said here | princess | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come not said to happen | to-infinitive | princess not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | princess not said here | the house | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 5 | treat | past | princess | with such honour and attention | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with honour=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the ogress | princess | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | accomplish in a quote | shall | the ogress = ogress | my errand | soon property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent errand=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | embrace | the ogress | nom embrace «act 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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