Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 14, sentence 96
Then he strode away, full of bitterness and anger; but, as he passed under the palace windows, he heard his mother weeping, and the sound softened his heart, so that his wrath died down, and a great loneliness fell upon him, because he was spurned by both father and mother.
Who acts: empire, sound, wrath, great loneliness, father · What happens: stride away, pass, hear, soften, die down, fall · To what, where: palace windows, mother weeping, heart, empire
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 (empire, sound, wrath, great loneliness), 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 | 3 strode | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 strode | nsubj |
| 3 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 strode | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 strode | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 bitterness | case |
| 8 | bitterness | bitterness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 anger | cc |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bitterness | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 heard | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 heard | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 but | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 passed | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 passed | nsubj |
| 16 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | advcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 windows | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 windows | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 windows | compound |
| 20 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 passed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 passed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 heard | nsubj |
| 23 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 weeping | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 weeping | compound |
| 26 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 heard | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 softened | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 softened | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sound | det |
| 30 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 softened | nsubj |
| 31 | softened | soften | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 heard | parataxis |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 softened | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 died | punct |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 39 died | mark |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 so | fixed |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 died | nsubj |
| 39 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 softened | conj |
| 40 | down | down | ADP | _ | 39 died | compound:prt |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 fell | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 fell | cc |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 loneliness | det |
| 44 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 loneliness | amod |
| 45 | loneliness | loneliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 fell | nsubj |
| 46 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strode | parataxis |
| 47 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 fell | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 spurned | punct |
| 50 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 53 spurned | mark |
| 51 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 spurned | nsubj |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 spurned | aux:pass |
| 53 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 fell | conj |
| 54 | by | by | ADP | _ | 56 father | case |
| 55 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 56 father | cc:preconj |
| 56 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 spurned | obl |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 mother | cc |
| 58 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 father | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stride away | past | empire | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pass | past | empire | the palace windows | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under window=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | empire | empire's mother weeping | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer weeping=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | soften | past | the sound | empire's heart | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 5 | die down | past | empire's wrath | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | a great loneliness | upon empire | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 7 | spurn | past · passive | father and mother | empire | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | weep | empire | nom weeping «act intransitive»: poss=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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