Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 50
The Boy who had a Moon on his Forehead and a Star on his Chin
Who acts: Boy · What happens: have · To what, where: Moon, Forehead
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Moon | det |
| 6 | Moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 Forehead | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 Forehead | nmod:poss |
| 9 | Forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Star | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Star | det |
| 12 | Star | Star | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Forehead | conj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Chin | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Chin | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Boy | a Moon | Boy's Forehead and a Star | on Boy's Chin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Patient |
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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