Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 146
Then Katar told the King the prince was really his son, and told him all the story of his birth, and of his life up to that moment; and when the King found the beautiful prince was indeed his son, he was so glad, so glad.
Who acts: Katar, prince, King, beautiful prince · What happens: tell, be, tell up, find · To what, where: King, son, story · 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 (Katar, prince, King, beautiful 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 prince | det |
| 7 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 son | cop |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 son | advmod |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 story | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 story | det |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 birth | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 birth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 story | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 life | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 life | cc |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 life | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 told | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 moment | case |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 moment | det |
| 30 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 told | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 glad | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 glad | cc |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 found | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 King | det |
| 35 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 found | nsubj |
| 36 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 glad | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 prince | det |
| 38 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 prince | amod |
| 39 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 son | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 son | cop |
| 41 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 43 son | advmod |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 son | nmod:poss |
| 43 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 found | ccomp |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 found | punct |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 glad | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 glad | cop |
| 47 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 glad | advmod |
| 48 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | parataxis |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 glad | punct |
| 50 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 glad | advmod |
| 51 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 glad | conj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Katar | the King | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the prince | King's son | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell up speech: assert | past | Katar not said here | all story of King's birth | King | moment | of King's life | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |
| 4 | find | past | the King | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the beautiful prince | King's son | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | is | past | King | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | King 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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