Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 120
The youngest princess ordered a grand elephant to be ready for her the next morning, and when the morning came, and all was ready, she dressed herself in the most lovely clothes, and put on her beautiful jewels; then she mounted her elephant, which was painted blue.
Who acts: youngest princess, morning, all, princess · What happens: order, be, come, dress, put, mount · To what, where: grand elephant, princess, lovely clothes, beautiful jewels, elephant
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest princess, morning, all, princess), 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 princess | det |
| 2 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 princess | amod |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 elephant | det |
| 6 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 elephant | amod |
| 7 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ordered | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ready | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | cop |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ordered | ccomp |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 ready | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 morning | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 morning | amod |
| 15 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ready | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dressed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dressed | cc |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 dressed | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ready | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ready | cc |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 ready | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 ready | cop |
| 26 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 came | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 dressed | nsubj |
| 29 | dressed | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | parataxis |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 dressed | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 clothes | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 clothes | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 34 lovely | advmod |
| 34 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 clothes | amod |
| 35 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 29 dressed | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 put | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 put | cc |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dressed | conj |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 jewels | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 jewels | nmod:poss |
| 41 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 jewels | amod |
| 42 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 put | obl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 mounted | punct |
| 44 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 mounted | advmod |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 mounted | nsubj |
| 46 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 47 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 elephant | nmod:poss |
| 48 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 mounted | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 painted | punct |
| 50 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 painted | aux:pass |
| 52 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 elephant | acl:relcl |
| 53 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 painted | xcomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the youngest princess | a grand elephant | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | the youngest princess not said here | morning | for princess; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | past | the morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | all | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dress | past | princess | princess | the lovely clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient | |||
| 6 | put | participle | princess not said here | princess's beautiful jewels | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on jewel=Destination | ||||
| 7 | mount | past | princess | princess's elephant | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Patient | |||
| 8 | paint | past · passive | princess's elephant | blue property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
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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