Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 76
So, when a fair young Prince was in due time born into the world, his parents hid him away in an underground palace, with nurses, and servants, and everything else a King's son might desire.
Who acts: fair young Prince, parents, everything · What happens: be, bear, hide away, desire · To what, where: due time, world, child, underground palace
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 (fair young Prince, parents, everything), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 19 hid | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 time | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Prince | det |
| 5 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Prince | amod |
| 7 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 time | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | advcl |
| 12 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 time | acl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 world | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 born | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 parents | nmod:poss |
| 18 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hid | obj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 hid | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 palace | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 palace | det |
| 24 | underground | underground | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 palace | amod |
| 25 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 nurses | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 nurses | case |
| 28 | nurses | nurse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 palace | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 servants | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 servants | cc |
| 31 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hid | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 desire | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 desire | cc |
| 34 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 41 desire | nsubj |
| 35 | else | else | ADV | _ | 34 everything | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 King | det |
| 37 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 son | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 King | case |
| 39 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 everything | appos |
| 40 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 desire | aux |
| 41 | desire | desire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 hid | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a fair young Prince | in due time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | participle | due time not said here | the world | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hide away | past | child's parents | child | a underground palace and nurses | servants obl; away property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Patient in palace=Location | ||
| 4 | desire | might | everything | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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