Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 101
In the middle of the night the nurse took the box in which was the beautiful little prince, and went out to a broad plain in the jungle.
Who acts: nurse · What happens: take, be, go out · To what, where: box, middle
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nurse), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 middle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 middle | det |
| 3 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 middle | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nurse | det |
| 8 | nurse | nurse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 box | det |
| 11 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 prince | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 prince | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 prince | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prince | amod |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 went | cc |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 plain | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 plain | det |
| 25 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 plain | amod |
| 26 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 jungle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 jungle | det |
| 29 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plain | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the nurse | the box | the middle of the night | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Value in middle=Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | in the beautiful little prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go out | past | the nurse not said here | to a broad plain in the jungle; out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: 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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