Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 135
The Kings and Rajas and their sons were very much astonished, and said, "What does this mean?
Who acts: Kings, this · What happens: be, say, mean · 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 (Kings, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Kings | det |
| 2 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Rajas | cc |
| 4 | Rajas | raja | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Kings | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sons | cc |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Kings | conj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 astonished | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 astonished | advmod |
| 11 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 astonished | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 mean | punct |
| 17 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 mean | obj |
| 18 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 mean | aux |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 mean | nsubj |
| 20 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Kings and Rajas and Rajas's sons | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the Kings and Rajas and Rajas's sons not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present · do-support | this | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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