Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 32
The six princes consented, for they thought, "No one will ever see the mark of the pice, as it will be covered by our clothes; and we shall die if we have no water to drink."
Who acts: six princes, daughters, one, clothes, we, water · What happens: consent, think, see, cover, die, have · To what, where: mark, pice, water · 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 (six princes, daughters, one, clothes), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 princes | nummod |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consented | nsubj |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 thought | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consented | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 see | punct |
| 11 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 one | det |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 14 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 see | advmod |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thought | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mark | det |
| 17 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 pice | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pice | det |
| 20 | pice | pice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mark | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 covered | punct |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 covered | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 covered | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 covered | aux:pass |
| 26 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 see | parataxis |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 clothes | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 26 covered | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 die | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 die | cc |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 die | nsubj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 die | aux |
| 34 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consented | advcl |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 have | mark |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 have | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 die | advcl |
| 38 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 39 water | det |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 have | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 drink | mark |
| 41 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 have | xcomp |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 die | punct |
| 43 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | participle | the six princes | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | daughters = daughter | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | future | no one | the mark of the pice | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | cover in a quote | future · passive | our clothes | pice | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | shall | we | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | we | no water | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | drink in a quote | to-infinitive | no water not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | mark in a quote | the pice | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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