Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 48

Now this king was very talkative; while he was speaking, others had no opportunity for a word.

Who acts: king, others · What happens: be, speak, have · To what, where: opportunity · 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 (king, others), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 talkative	advmod
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 talkative	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talkative	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 talkative	advmod
6	talkative	talkative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 speaking	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 speaking	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 speaking	aux
11	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 had	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 speaking	punct
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 talkative	parataxis
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 opportunity	det
16	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 word	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 word	det
19	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 opportunity	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 talkative	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this king		now	talkative property	tree rules
2	speak speech: other	past · progressive	king				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	past	others	no opportunity		for a word	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Patient

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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