Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 117
While the servants were bringing the gardener's daughter, the King thought how handsome the young prince was; and he noticed particularly the moon on his forehead and the star on his chin, and he wondered in what country the young prince was born.
Who acts: servants, King, young prince, prince · What happens: bring, think, be, notice, wonder, bear · To what, where: daughter, moon, forehead, young prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, King, young prince, prince), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 bringing | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servants | det |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bringing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bringing | aux |
| 5 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 thought | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 gardener | case |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bringing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bringing | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 thought | nsubj |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 handsome | advmod |
| 15 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prince | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 handsome | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 handsome | cop |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 noticed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 noticed | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 noticed | nsubj |
| 23 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | conj |
| 24 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 23 noticed | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moon | det |
| 26 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 forehead | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 29 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 noticed | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 star | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 star | det |
| 32 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 forehead | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 chin | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 chin | nmod:poss |
| 35 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 star | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wondered | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 wondered | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wondered | nsubj |
| 39 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thought | conj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 what | case |
| 41 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 39 wondered | obl |
| 42 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 what | nsubj |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 prince | det |
| 44 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 prince | amod |
| 45 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 born | nsubj:pass |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 born | aux:pass |
| 47 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 what | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · progressive | the servants | the gardener's daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the King | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the young prince | handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | notice | past | prince | the moon | prince's forehead and the star on prince's chin | particularly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer moon=Stimulus | ||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past | prince | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bear | past · passive | the young prince | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «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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