Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 62
While the prince was staying at the palace he saw his sister, who greeted him with smiles and kisses.
Who acts: prince, sister · What happens: stay, see, greet · To what, where: palace, sister, prince
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, sister), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 staying | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staying | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 staying | aux |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 palace | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 palace | det |
| 8 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staying | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 palace | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 greeted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 greeted | nsubj |
| 15 | greeted | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sister | acl:relcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 greeted | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 smiles | case |
| 18 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 greeted | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kisses | cc |
| 20 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 smiles | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 staying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past · progressive | the prince | the palace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | prince | prince's sister | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | past | prince's sister | prince | with smiles and kisses | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/62/