Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 48
In the middle of the night he saw two Shahmars come out from the nostrils of the princess.
Who acts: prince, two Shahmars · What happens: see, come out · To what, where: middle, nostrils · 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 (prince, two Shahmars), 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 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Shahmars | nummod |
| 10 | Shahmars | shahmar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | nsubj |
| 11 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADV | _ | 11 come | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 nostrils | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nostrils | det |
| 15 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 come | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 princess | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 princess | det |
| 18 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nostrils | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | prince | the middle of the night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | present | two Shahmars | the nostrils of the princess | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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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