Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 57
This delighted the gardener and his wife, who thought it would indeed be grand for their daughter to become a princess.
Who acts: This, gardener, child · What happens: delight, think, be, become · To what, where: gardener, princess · 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 (This, gardener, child), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | delighted | delight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gardener | det |
| 4 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 delighted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gardener | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gardener | acl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 grand | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 grand | aux |
| 13 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 15 grand | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grand | cop |
| 15 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 grand | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 become | mark |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 grand | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 become | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delight | past | This | the gardener and Boy's wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus gardener=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the gardener and Boy's wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | would | child | for playfellows's daughter; grand, indeed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | become | to-infinitive | child not said here | a princess | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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