Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 130
Every one laughed at her and said, "How can the King's daughter think of marrying this poor, common man!" and the Kings and the Rajas, who had come as suitors, all wanted to turn him out of the garden.
Who acts: one, daughter think, Rajas · What happens: laugh, say, marry, come, want, turn · To what, where: poor common man, Rajas, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, daughter think, Rajas), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 10 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 think | advmod |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | aux |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 King | case |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 think | compound |
| 16 | think | think | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 18 marrying | mark |
| 18 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 think | acl |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 man | det |
| 20 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 poor | punct |
| 22 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 marrying | obj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Kings | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Kings | det |
| 28 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 said | ccomp |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 wanted | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Rajas | det |
| 31 | Rajas | Rajas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 wanted | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 come | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 come | nsubj |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 come | aux |
| 35 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 Rajas | acl |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 suitors | case |
| 37 | suitors | suitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 come | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wanted | punct |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 wanted | advmod |
| 40 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 Kings | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 turn | mark |
| 42 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wanted | xcomp |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 turn | obj |
| 44 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 garden | case |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 garden | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 garden | det |
| 47 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 turn | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | every one | at daughter | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | every one not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | gerund | daughter think not said here | this poor common man | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past · perfect | the Rajas | as suitors | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | want | past | the Rajas | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | turn not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Rajas not said here | Rajas | the garden | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme out garden=Trajectory |
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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