Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 124
The princess rode all round the garden, and looked at all the Kings and Rajas and princes, and then she hung the gold necklace round the neck of the boy, the grain merchant's servant.
Who acts: princess · What happens: ride, look, hang · To what, where: garden, gold necklace
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 (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 | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | nsubj |
| 3 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 garden | advmod |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 7 garden | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 garden | det |
| 7 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rode | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Kings | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Kings | det:predet |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Kings | det |
| 14 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Rajas | cc |
| 16 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Kings | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 princes | cc |
| 18 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Kings | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hung | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hung | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 hung | advmod |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hung | nsubj |
| 23 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rode | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 necklace | det |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 necklace | compound |
| 26 | necklace | necklace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obj |
| 27 | round | round | ADP | _ | 29 neck | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 neck | det |
| 29 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 boy | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 boy | det |
| 32 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 neck | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 servant | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 merchant | det |
| 35 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 merchant | compound |
| 36 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 servant | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 merchant | case |
| 38 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hung | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the princess | the garden | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent round garden=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the princess not said here | at all Kings and Rajas and princes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at king=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hang | past | princess | the gold necklace | then | round the neck of the boy; the grain merchant's servant obl | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=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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