Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 16, sentence 97
The poor girl cried bitterly, and thought, "What will the King say when he finds no child?"
Who acts: poor girl, King · What happens: cry, think, say, find · To what, where: 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 (poor girl, King), 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 | 3 girl | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 girl | amod |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 4 cried | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 thought | cc |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cried | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 say | obj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 say | nsubj |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | parataxis |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 finds | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 finds | nsubj |
| 18 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | advcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 child | det |
| 20 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finds | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the poor girl | bitterly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the poor girl not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | future | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | present | King | no child | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Topic |
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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