Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 138
"In the morning there was great weeping and lamentation in the merchant's house when it was known what had happened.
Who acts: great weeping · What happens: be, know, happen · To what, where: lamentation
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great weeping), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 weeping | amod |
| 8 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lamentation | cc |
| 10 | lamentation | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 weeping | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 house | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merchant | det |
| 13 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 merchant | case |
| 15 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lamentation | nmod |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 known | advmod |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 known | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 known | aux:pass |
| 19 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 weeping | parataxis |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 known | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | past | great weeping and lamentation in the merchant's house | there | morning | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | past · passive | lamentation | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | happen in a quote | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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