Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 23
In the evening there was great consternation in the palace, because the queen had lost her pearl rosary, and nobody knew anything about it.
Who acts: queen, nobody · What happens: be, lose, know · To what, where: great consternation, palace, pearl rosary, anything
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 (queen, nobody), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 evening | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 evening | det |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consternation | obl |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 consternation | cop |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 consternation | amod |
| 7 | consternation | consternation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 consternation | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lost | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lost | aux |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 consternation | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 rosary | nmod:poss |
| 18 | pearl | pearl | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rosary | amod |
| 19 | rosary | rosary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 knew | cc |
| 22 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 rosary | acl:relcl |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 knew | obj |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 anything | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 consternation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | great consternation | the palace | evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past · perfect | the queen | queen's pearl rosary | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosary=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | know | past | nobody | anything | about rosary | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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