Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 13, sentence 76
And as these ceased, the noise and tumult of litigation ceased in the king's court.
Who acts: noise · What happens: cease · To what, where: these, court
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 (noise), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ceased | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 ceased | mark |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 ceased | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ceased | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceased | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tumult | cc |
| 9 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 litigation | case |
| 11 | litigation | litigation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tumult | nmod |
| 12 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 court | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 court | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceased | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle · passive | these | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cease | participle | the noise and tumult of litigation | the king's court | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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