Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 32
She cried with hatred and disgust, but sending for the lad, asked him how he had returned so soon, and when she heard how he had brought home the thirteen eyes, and given them to the seven blind Queens, she could hardly restrain her rage.
Who acts: thirteen, lad · What happens: cry, send, ask, return, hear, bring · To what, where: lad, eyes, seven blind Queens, rage · 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 (thirteen, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 hatred | case |
| 4 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cried | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 disgust | cc |
| 6 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hatred | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 9 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 lad | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lad | det |
| 12 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sending | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sending | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 returned | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 returned | aux |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | advcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 soon | advmod |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 returned | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 heard | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 heard | cc |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 heard | advmod |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 27 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 brought | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 brought | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brought | aux |
| 30 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 heard | ccomp |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 brought | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 eyes | det |
| 33 | thirteen | thirteen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 eyes | amod |
| 34 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 home | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 given | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 given | cc |
| 37 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cried | conj |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 given | obj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 Queens | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 Queens | det |
| 41 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 Queens | nummod |
| 42 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 Queens | amod |
| 43 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 given | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 restrain | punct |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 restrain | nsubj |
| 46 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 restrain | aux |
| 47 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 48 restrain | advmod |
| 48 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | conj |
| 49 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 rage | nmod:poss |
| 50 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 restrain | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | thirteen | with hatred and disgust | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hatred=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | gerund | for the lad | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | lad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | return | past · perfect | lad | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hear | past | thirteen | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | bring | past · perfect | lad | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | give | participle | thirteen not said here | eyes = eye | the seven blind Queens | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to queen=Recipient | |||
| 8 | restrain | could | thirteen | thirteen's rage | hardly property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer rage=Eventuality | |||
| 9 | rage | thirteen | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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