Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 96
First they put a stone into her boy's little bed, and then they took the handkerchief off her eyes and showed it her, saying, "Look! this is your son!"
Who acts: Queens, this · What happens: put, take, show, say, look, be · To what, where: stone, little bed, handkerchief, eyes, gardener, son · 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, this), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 bed | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 boy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 boy | case |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bed | amod |
| 11 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 took | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 handkerchief | det |
| 18 | handkerchief | handkerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 showed | cc |
| 23 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 showed | obj |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 showed | iobj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 saying | punct |
| 27 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 showed | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Look | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Look | punct |
| 30 | Look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 saying | ccomp |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Look | punct |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 son | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 son | cop |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Look | vocative |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 Look | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Queens = queen | a stone | gardener's boy's little bed | first property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stone=Goal | ||
| 2 | take | past | Queens = queen | the handkerchief | gardener's eyes | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Theme off eye=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | show | past | Queens = queen not said here | handkerchief | gardener | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient it=Topic | |||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | Queens = queen not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | look in a quote | infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | this | your son | 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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