Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 123
She wondered at his kindness to her, and thought, "Who is this handsome prince, with a moon on his forehead and a star on his chin?
Who acts: dinner · What happens: wonder, think, be · To what, where: gardener, kindness, handsome 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 (dinner), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 kindness | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wondered | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 her | case |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wondered | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prince | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 prince | punct |
| 13 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 prince | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 prince | cop |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 prince | det |
| 16 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 prince | amod |
| 17 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 moon | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 moon | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 moon | det |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 forehead | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 24 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 moon | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 star | cc |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 star | det |
| 27 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forehead | conj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 chin | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 chin | nmod:poss |
| 30 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 star | nmod |
| 31 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | dinner | gardener | prince's kindness | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | with a moon on prince's forehead and a star on prince's chin | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | this handsome prince | 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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