Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 55

But one day the King heard her telling them about the beautiful boy she would have when she was married, and he said to himself he should like very much to have such a son; the more so that though he had already four Queens he had no child.

Who acts: King, gardener · What happens: hear, tell, marry, say, like, have · To what, where: gardener, playfellows, Boy, son, four Queens, 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 (King, gardener), 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	_	6 heard	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 heard	nsubj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 heard	obj
8	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heard	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 telling	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	13 boy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 telling	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 married	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 married	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 married	aux
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 married	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 married	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 married	aux:pass
20	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 boy	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 said	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 like	nsubj
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 like	aux
29	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 much	advmod
31	much	much	ADV	_	29 like	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 have	mark
33	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 like	xcomp
34	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	36 son	det:predet
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 son	det
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 have	obj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 more	punct
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 more	det
39	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 heard	advmod
40	so	so	SCONJ	_	49 had	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 had	mark
42	though	though	SCONJ	_	44 had	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 had	nsubj
44	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 had	advcl
45	already	already	ADV	_	46 four	advmod
46	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 Queens	nummod
47	Queens	queen	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 had	obj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 had	nsubj
49	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	ccomp
50	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	51 child	det
51	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 had	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the King	gardener		day		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	gerund	gardener not said here		playfellows = playfellow		about the beautiful boy	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about boy=Topic
3	marry	would · passive		gardener				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	King		Boy			vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to himself=Experiencer clause=Topic
5	like	should	King					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here	such son				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
7	have	past	King	four Queens				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent queen=Patient
8	have	past	King	no child				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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