Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 22
So he ran and told the four Queens, "The King's cow has a beautiful boy inside her.
Who acts: Suri, cow · What happens: run, tell, have · To what, where: four Queens, beautiful boy · 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 (Suri, cow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Queens | det |
| 7 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Queens | nummod |
| 8 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 told | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 has | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 King | case |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 boy | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 boy | amod |
| 18 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 20 her | case |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 boy | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Suri | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Suri not said here | the four Queens | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | the King's cow | a beautiful boy | inside child | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/23/22/