Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 113
But this time the dog's keeper had followed and watched the dog; and he saw all that Shankar did, and the beautiful little child, so he ran to the four Queens and said to them, "Inside the King's dog there is a child! the loveliest child!
Who acts: Boy, Shankar · What happens: follow, watch, see, do, run, say · To what, where: keeper, dog, that, Queens, loveliest child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Boy, Shankar), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 followed | cc |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeper | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | keeper | keeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 followed | aux |
| 9 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watched | cc |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 followed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 dog | det |
| 13 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watched | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 followed | conj |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 that | det:predet |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | Shankar | Shankar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 did | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 that | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 child | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 child | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 child | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 child | amod |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 child | amod |
| 27 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 ran | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 child | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Queens | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Queens | det |
| 34 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 Queens | nummod |
| 35 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 ran | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 said | cc |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 ran | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 them | case |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 said | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 42 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 46 dog | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 King | det |
| 44 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 dog | nmod:poss |
| 45 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 44 King | case |
| 46 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 is | obl |
| 47 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 48 is | expl |
| 48 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 54 child | cop |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 child | det |
| 50 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 is | nsubj |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 48 is | punct |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 child | det |
| 53 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 54 child | amod |
| 54 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 child | conj |
| 55 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · perfect · passive | the dog's keeper | time | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | the dog | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Boy | that | the beautiful little child and the loveliest child obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | do | past | Shankar | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | run | past | Boy | to the four Queens result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to queen=Result | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Boy not said here | Queens = queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | Boy not said here | the loveliest child | 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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