Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 28
Clad in his own clothes, the prince was walking along one day when he saw a potter crying and laughing alternately with his wife and children. "
Who acts: Clad, prince, potter · What happens: walk, see, cry, laugh · To what, where: potter
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 (Clad, prince, potter), 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 | Clad | Clad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 walking | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 clothes | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 clothes | amod |
| 5 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Clad | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prince | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walking | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walking | aux |
| 10 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | along | along | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walking | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 saw | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walking | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 potter | det |
| 18 | potter | potter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 saw | obj |
| 19 | crying | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 potter | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 laughing | cc |
| 21 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 crying | conj |
| 22 | alternately | alternately | ADV | _ | 21 laughing | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 alternately | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 children | cc |
| 27 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 wife | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walking | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 walking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | Clad in Clad's own clothes | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | prince | a potter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer potter=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | gerund | a potter not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | laugh | gerund | a potter not said here | alternately property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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