Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 16
Now, as the son of seven Queens could not read, he took the fatal message cheerfully, and set off to find the white Queen's mother.
Who acts: son · What happens: not read, take, set off, find · To what, where: fatal message, mother
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 (son), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 son | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 son | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 read | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Queens | case |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Queens | nummod |
| 8 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 read | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 read | advmod |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 read | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 message | det |
| 16 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 message | amod |
| 17 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 set | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 set | cc |
| 21 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 read | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 set | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 set | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Queen | det |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Queen | amod |
| 27 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 Queen | case |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not read | could | the son of seven Queens | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take | past | son | the fatal message | cheerfully property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme | |||
| 3 | set off | infinitive | the son of seven Queens not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the son of seven Queens not said here | the white Queen's mother | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
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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