Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 7
At the first glance of the handsome young lad standing there bow in hand, she knew by witchcraft that it was the King's son.
Who acts: handsome young lad, matter, aim · What happens: stand, know, be, glance · To what, where: bow, hand, first glance, son
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 (handsome young lad, matter, aim), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 glance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 glance | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 glance | amod |
| 4 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 lad | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lad | det |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lad | amod |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lad | amod |
| 9 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glance | nmod |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lad | acl |
| 11 | there | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes | 12 bow | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 glance | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 witchcraft | case |
| 19 | witchcraft | witchcraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 son | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 son | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 son | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 King | case |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knew | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | the handsome young lad not said here | there's bow | hand | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bow=Theme in hand=Destination | |||
| 2 | know | past | matter | the first glance of the handsome young lad | by witchcraft | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a | past | aim | the King's son | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | glance | the handsome young lad | nom glance «act intransitive»: of=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/19/7/