Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 19
"Fair Prince, on the charger so gray, Turn thee back! turn thee back!
Who acts: Fair Prince · What happens: turn back · To what, where: thee
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 (Fair Prince), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
| 2 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Prince | amod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Turn | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 charger | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 charger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 charger | det |
| 7 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | appos |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 9 gray | case |
| 9 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 charger | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
| 11 | Turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 Turn | obj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 Turn | advmod |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
| 15 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Turn | obj |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 Turn | obj |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 Turn | advmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 Turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back in a quote | infinitive | Fair Prince | thee | 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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