Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 20
When they saw him the six princes said to each other, "Look at that handsome prince.
Who acts: brothers, six princes · What happens: see, say, look · To what, where: prince, each · 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 (brothers, six princes), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 princes | det |
| 6 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 princes | nummod |
| 7 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Look | punct |
| 14 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 prince | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 prince | det |
| 17 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 prince | amod |
| 18 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Look | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | brothers = brother | prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the six princes | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | look in a quote | infinitive | the six princes not said here | at that handsome prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at prince=Theme |
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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