Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 24
When the beautiful bride heard his story, she asked to see the potsherd, for she was very learned and clever.
Who acts: beautiful bride, bride · What happens: hear, ask, see, learn · To what, where: story, potsherd, bride
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 (beautiful bride, bride), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bride | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bride | amod |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 potsherd | det |
| 14 | potsherd | potsherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 learned | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 learned | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 learned | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 learned | aux:pass |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 learned | advmod |
| 20 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 clever | cc |
| 22 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 learned | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the beautiful bride | son's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | bride | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | bride not said here | the potsherd | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer potsherd=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | learn | past · passive | bride | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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