Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 11, sentence 88
His Majesty was very glad, therefore, when he saw the Brahman and heard that he was good and honest.
Who acts: Majesty, king · What happens: be, see, hear · To what, where: Brahman · 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 (Majesty, king), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 glad | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 5 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 therefore | punct |
| 7 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 glad | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 saw | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 glad | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Brahman | det |
| 13 | Brahman | Brahman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 heard | cc |
| 15 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 saw | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 good | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 good | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 good | cop |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 heard | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 honest | cc |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 good | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 glad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | king's Majesty | glad, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | king | the Brahman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brahman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | king not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | past | king | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | king not said here | 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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