Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 121
They remembered that, when they arrived, the prince had made them no salaams, and since then had not taken the least notice of them; whereas he could not do enough for the gardener's daughter, and seemed very glad to see her.
Who acts: salaams, prince · What happens: remember, arrive, make, not take, not do, seem · To what, where: prince, least notice, gardener, salaams
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 (salaams, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remembered | nsubj |
| 2 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 arrived | mark |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 arrived | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 made | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | obj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 salaams | det |
| 15 | salaams | salaam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 18 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 then | case |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 taken | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 taken | advmod |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 notice | det |
| 24 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 notice | amod |
| 25 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 notice | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 do | punct |
| 29 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 33 do | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 do | nsubj |
| 31 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 do | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 do | advmod |
| 33 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 do | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 daughter | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 gardener | det |
| 37 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 38 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 37 gardener | case |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 do | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 seemed | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 seemed | cc |
| 42 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 remembered | parataxis |
| 43 | very | very | ADV | _ | 44 glad | advmod |
| 44 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 seemed | xcomp |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 see | mark |
| 46 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 glad | xcomp |
| 47 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 see | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | salaams = salaam | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | arrive | past | salaams = salaam | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not take | past · perfect | the least notice of salaams | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not do | could | prince | for the gardener's daughter; enough property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | seem | past | glad property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | see | to-infinitive | gardener | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | notice | salaams = salaam | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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