Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 51
In the morning the king came as usual to inquire, and was surprised to hear his daughter and the prince talking gaily together. "
Who acts: king, prince · What happens: come, inquire, be, hear, talk · To what, where: daughter
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 (king, prince), 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 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 usual | advmod |
| 8 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 inquire | mark |
| 10 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 usual | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surprised | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 surprised | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 surprised | cop |
| 14 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hear | mark |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 surprised | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 prince | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 prince | det |
| 21 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | conj |
| 22 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 prince | acl |
| 23 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 24 together | advmod |
| 24 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 talking | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | morning | usual property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | the king not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the king not said here | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | the king not said here | prince's daughter and the prince | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | talk | gerund | the prince not said here | together property | vn talk-37.5 «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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