Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 45
He spoke to the ring, and his beautiful wife and house reappeared, and he and everybody were as happy as ever they could be.
Who acts: sorrow, beautiful wife · What happens: speak, reappear, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sorrow, beautiful wife), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spoke | nsubj |
| 2 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 ring | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spoke | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reappeared | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reappeared | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reappeared | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 house | cc |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wife | conj |
| 13 | reappeared | reappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spoke | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 happy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 happy | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 happy | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 everybody | cc |
| 18 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 he | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 happy | cop |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 happy | advmod |
| 21 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reappeared | parataxis |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 ever | case |
| 23 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 happy | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 be | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 be | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 happy | cop |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | sorrow | to the ring | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to ring=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | reappear | past | sorrow's beautiful wife and house | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | sorrow | happy property | tree rules |
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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