Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 120
The four wicked wives looked on and were very much surprised and very angry.
Who acts: four wicked wives · What happens: look on, be
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 (four wicked wives), 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 | 4 wives | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 wives | nummod |
| 3 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wives | amod |
| 4 | wives | wife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 surprised | cc |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 surprised | cop |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 surprised | advmod |
| 11 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 looked | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 angry | cc |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 angry | advmod |
| 14 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 surprised | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the four wicked wives | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the four wicked wives not said here | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the four wicked wives not said here | tree rules |
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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