Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 147
He put his arms round him and kissed him and cried for joy.
Who acts: King · What happens: put, kiss, cry · To what, where: arms, King
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 arms | nmod:poss |
| 4 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kissed | cc |
| 8 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 kissed | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cried | cc |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 kissed | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 joy | case |
| 13 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | King | King's arms | round prince | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arm=Goal | |||
| 2 | kiss | past | King not said here | King | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | King not said here | for joy | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient |
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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