Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 12
Hearing this, the lad was delighted beyond measure, and gave up the pigeon at once.
Who acts: lad · What happens: hear, be, give up · To what, where: this, pigeon
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lad), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 delighted | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Hearing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lad | det |
| 5 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | cop |
| 7 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 9 measure | case |
| 9 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 delighted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 delighted | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gave | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pigeon | det |
| 15 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 gave | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the lad | beyond measure; delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | the lad not said here | the pigeon | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pigeon=Source |
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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