Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 13
Then the Prince turned towards the burning forest, and, lo! the voice was the voice of a tiny cricket.
Who acts: Prince, voice · What happens: turn, burn, be · To what, where: burning forest, voice
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, voice), 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 | 4 turned | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 7 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 forest | amod |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 voice | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 voice | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 18 voice | discourse |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 lo | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 voice | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cricket | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 cricket | det |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cricket | amod |
| 22 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 voice | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the Prince | the burning forest | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards forest=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the voice | the voice | of a tiny cricket | 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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