Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 18
Meanwhile the beautiful young prince had sat down under a tree, to dine and rest, and there his six brothers-in-law found him.
Who acts: six brothers · What happens: sit down, dine, rest, find · To what, where: beautiful young prince, tree, prince
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 (six brothers), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 7 sat | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | aux |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 sat | compound:prt |
| 9 | under | under | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dine | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 dine | mark |
| 14 | dine | dine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rest | cc |
| 16 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 dine | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 found | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 found | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 found | expl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brothers | nummod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 found | nsubj |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 law | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 law | case |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 in | punct |
| 26 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 found | nsubj |
| 27 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sat | parataxis |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 found | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past · perfect · passive | the beautiful young prince | a tree | meanwhile property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dine | to-infinitive | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | rest | infinitive | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | find | past | prince's six brothers | prince | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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