Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 37
He has a moon on his forehead and a star on his chin."
Who acts: prince · What happens: have · To what, where: moon, forehead
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 has | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moon | det |
| 4 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 forehead | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 7 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 has | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 star | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 star | det |
| 10 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 forehead | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 chin | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 star | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | prince | a moon | prince's forehead and a star on prince's chin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=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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