Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 101
Now it happened one day that a poor old fakir came to the King, and said, "Your prayers are heard, your desire shall be accomplished, and one of your seven Queens shall bear a son."
Who acts: it, poor old fakir, one, Your · What happens: happen, come, say, hear, accomplish, bear · To what, where: prayers, desire, son · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, poor old fakir, one, Your), 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 | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 day | nummod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happened | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 came | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fakir | det |
| 8 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fakir | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fakir | amod |
| 10 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | nsubj |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 King | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 said | cc |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 20 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | aux:pass |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 said | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accomplished | punct |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 desire | nmod:poss |
| 26 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 accomplished | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 29 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 heard | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 bear | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bear | cc |
| 32 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 bear | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Queens | case |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Queens | nmod:poss |
| 35 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 Queens | nummod |
| 36 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 one | nmod |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 bear | aux |
| 38 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 son | det |
| 40 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bear | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 38 bear | punct |
| 42 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now; day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a poor old fakir | to the King | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | present · passive | Your prayers | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | accomplish in a quote | shall · passive | your desire | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | bear in a quote | shall | one of your seven Queens | a son | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 7 | pray in a quote | Your | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | desire in a quote | your | nom desire «feeling 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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