Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 45
Seeing them so comfortably off, the son of seven Queens started with a light heart to marry the Princess; but when passing the white hind's palace he could not resist sending a bolt at some pigeons which were cooing on the parapet.
Who acts: son, pigeons · What happens: see, start, marry, pass, not resist, send · To what, where: Queens, Princess, palace, bolt, pigeons, parapet
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, pigeons), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 started | advcl |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 4 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 5 off | advmod |
| 5 | off | off | ADV | _ | 1 Seeing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Queens | case |
| 10 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 Queens | nummod |
| 11 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | compound |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 started | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 marry | mark |
| 18 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 started | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Princess | det |
| 20 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marry | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 resist | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 resist | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 passing | advmod |
| 24 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 resist | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hind | det |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hind | amod |
| 27 | hind | hind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 palace | nmod:poss |
| 28 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 27 hind | case |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passing | obj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 resist | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 resist | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 resist | advmod |
| 33 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 started | conj |
| 34 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 resist | xcomp |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bolt | det |
| 36 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sending | obj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 pigeons | case |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 pigeons | det |
| 39 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sending | obl |
| 40 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 cooing | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 cooing | aux |
| 42 | cooing | coo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 pigeons | acl:relcl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 parapet | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 parapet | det |
| 45 | parapet | parapet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cooing | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the son of seven Queens not said here | Queens = queen | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | start | past | the son of seven Queens | with a light heart | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with heart=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | the son of seven Queens not said here | the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pass | gerund | son not said here | the white hind's palace | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | not resist | could | son | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | send | gerund | son not said here | a bolt | some pigeons | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bolt=Theme | |||
| 7 | coo | past · progressive | some pigeons | the parapet | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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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