Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 62
One day they said to her, "The King hunts every day; and the time is soon coming when you will have your child.
Who acts: Queens, King, gardener · What happens: say, hunt, come, have · To what, where: gardener, 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 (Queens, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 her | case |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunts | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunts | punct |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hunts | nsubj |
| 11 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunts | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 coming | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 coming | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 coming | aux |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 coming | advmod |
| 20 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | advcl |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 have | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 have | aux |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 coming | advcl |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 child | nmod:poss |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Queens = queen | gardener | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | hunt in a quote | present | the King | day | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Queens = queen not said here | time | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | gardener | your 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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