Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 51
On hearing the groom's story the four Queens cried, and tore their hair and clothes, and refused to eat.
Who acts: four Queens · What happens: hear, cry, tore, refuse, not eat · To what, where: story, hair
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 (four Queens), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cried | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 groom | det |
| 4 | groom | groom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 groom | case |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Queens | det |
| 8 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 Queens | nummod |
| 9 | Queens | queen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tore | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tore | cc |
| 13 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tore | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 clothes | cc |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 hair | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 refused | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 refused | cc |
| 20 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 cried | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 refused | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the four Queens not said here | the groom's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the four Queens | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tore | past | the four Queens not said here | Queens's hair and clothes | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | refuse | past | the four Queens not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not eat | to-infinitive | the four Queens not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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