Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 15, sentence 45
Seeing this, the youngest Princess, who was the only one who could run, fled to her father the King in a great fright, saying:
Who acts: youngest Princess, only one · What happens: see, be, run, flee, say · To what, where: this, only one, great fright · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youngest Princess, only one), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fled | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Princess | det |
| 5 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Princess | amod |
| 6 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 one | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 one | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Princess | appos |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 run | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 run | aux |
| 15 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Princess | punct |
| 17 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 father | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 father | nmod:poss |
| 20 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | obl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 King | det |
| 22 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 father | appos |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 fright | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fright | det |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fright | amod |
| 26 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fled | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
| 28 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 fled | advcl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the youngest Princess not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the youngest Princess | the only one | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | run | could | the only one | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flee | past | the youngest Princess | a great fright | to Princess's father | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | the youngest Princess not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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