Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 11
Then the charioteer of the king of Benares thought, "They say then that he too is a king!
Who acts: charioteer, lord · What happens: think, say, be · To what, where: king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charioteer, lord), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 thought | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 charioteer | det |
| 3 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charioteer | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Benares | case |
| 8 | Benares | Benares | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 king | nmod |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 say | nsubj |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 king | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 king | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 king | nsubj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 he | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 king | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 king | det |
| 20 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 say | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the charioteer of the king of Benares | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | charioteer | a king | then | tree rules |
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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