Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 103
Meanwhile the seven Queens lived luxuriously in a splendid palace, attended by hundreds of female slaves, and fed to their hearts' content on sweetmeats and confectionery.
Who acts: seven Queens · What happens: live, attend, feed · To what, where: splendid palace, content
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 (seven Queens), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 5 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queens | det |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 Queens | nummod |
| 4 | Queens | Queen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | luxuriously | luxuriously | ADV | _ | 5 lived | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 9 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 palace | amod |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attended | punct |
| 12 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 palace | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hundreds | case |
| 14 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 attended | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 slaves | case |
| 16 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 slaves | amod |
| 17 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 hundreds | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fed | cc |
| 20 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 lived | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 content | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 content | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 23 hearts | case |
| 25 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fed | obl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 sweetmeats | case |
| 27 | sweetmeats | sweetmeat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 content | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 confectionery | cc |
| 29 | confectionery | confectionery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sweetmeats | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the seven Queens | a splendid palace | luxuriously, meanwhile property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in palace=Location | |||
| 2 | attend | participle | a splendid palace not said here | by hundreds of female slaves | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by hundred=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | participle | the seven Queens not said here | slaves's hearts's content on sweetmeats and confectionery | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to content=Recipient |
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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