Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 13
Whereupon the white Queen told him to seek her mother without delay, and ask for the eyes which she wore as a necklace.
Who acts: white Queen, eyes · What happens: tell, seek, ask, wear · To what, where: lad, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (white Queen, eyes), 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 | Whereupon | whereupon | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Queen | amod |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 told | nsubj |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 told | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 seek | mark |
| 8 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 told | xcomp |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mother | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seek | obj |
| 11 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 delay | case |
| 12 | delay | delay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seek | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ask | cc |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seek | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 eyes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 eyes | det |
| 18 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 ask | obl |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 wore | nsubj |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 wore | nsubj |
| 21 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 necklace | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 necklace | det |
| 24 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wore | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the white Queen | lad | whereupon property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | seek not said to happen | to-infinitive | the white Queen not said here | matter's mother | without delay | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the white Queen not said here | for the eyes | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | the eyes | as a necklace | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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