Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 36
All the people looked at him as he came riding along, saying, "What a splendid young prince that is!
Who acts: people, prince, splendid young prince · What happens: look, come, ride along, say, be · 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 (people, prince, splendid young 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 people | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 looked | obl |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | advcl |
| 10 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 came | advcl |
| 11 | along | along | ADV | _ | 10 riding | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saying | punct |
| 13 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 riding | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 What | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 What | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 saying | obj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 prince | det |
| 18 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prince | amod |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 What | nsubj |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 is | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 prince | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | all people | at prince | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ride along | gerund | prince not said here | along property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | gerund | prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | a splendid young prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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