Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 126
Two or three days were thus passed in feasting, and all that time the King and his people were talking about the prince's beauty, and wondering who he was.
Who acts: King, prince · What happens: pass, talk, wonder, be · To what, where: Two days, feasting · 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 (King, 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 three | cc |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Two | conj |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux:pass |
| 6 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 passed | advmod |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 feasting | case |
| 9 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 talking | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 talking | cc |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 talking | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 talking | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 people | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 people | nmod:poss |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 King | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 talking | aux |
| 21 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 passed | parataxis |
| 22 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 beauty | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 prince | det |
| 24 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 prince | case |
| 26 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 talking | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wondering | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 wondering | cc |
| 29 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 talking | parataxis |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 wondering | ccomp |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 who | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 who | cop |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | Two days | feasting | thus property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in feasting=Destination | |||
| 2 | talk | past · progressive | the King and King's people | time | about the prince's beauty | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about beauty=Topic | |||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | 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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