Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 87
And when the boy had twisted it, he was no longer a handsome prince, but a poor, common-looking, ugly man; and his moon and star were hidden.
Who acts: boy · What happens: twist, be, look, hide · To what, where: boy, handsome prince, moon
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 (boy), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 twisted | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 twisted | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twisted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 twisted | aux |
| 6 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 twisted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 twisted | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prince | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 prince | cop |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 longer | advmod |
| 12 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 prince | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 14 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 prince | amod |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 twisted | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 man | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 19 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 poor | punct |
| 21 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 looking | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 common | punct |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 man | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 man | punct |
| 25 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 prince | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 hidden | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 hidden | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 moon | nmod:poss |
| 30 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 star | cc |
| 32 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 moon | conj |
| 33 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 hidden | aux:pass |
| 34 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 twisted | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past · perfect · passive | the boy | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme it=Result | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | boy | a handsome prince but a poor looking ugly man | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | hide | past · passive | boy's moon and star | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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