Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 122

It was a handsome boy, but the other Queens were very jealous that the youngest amongst them should be so fortunate.

Who acts: baby, other Queens, youngest · What happens: be · To what, where: handsome boy

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 (baby, other Queens, youngest), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boy	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
4	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 jealous	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 jealous	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Queens	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Queens	amod
10	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 jealous	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 jealous	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 jealous	advmod
13	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 fortunate	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 youngest	det
16	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 fortunate	nsubj
17	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 youngest	nmod
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fortunate	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 fortunate	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 fortunate	advmod
22	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jealous	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	baby	a handsome boy		tree rules
2	is	past	the other Queens		jealous property	tree rules
3	is	should	the youngest amongst slaves		fortunate 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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