Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 55
"O king!" replied the prince, "I am the son of a king who rules over such-and-such a country."
Who acts: king · What happens: reply, be, rule · To what, where: prince, son, such country · 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 (king), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 king | discourse |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 6 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 son | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 son | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 replied | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 king | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 rules | nsubj |
| 19 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 king | conj |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 country | case |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 country | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 country | cc |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 and | punct |
| 25 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 country | det:predet |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rules | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 king | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | king | the prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | king | the son | of a king and rules | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rule in a quote | a king and rules | such such country | 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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