Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 40
They all wondered who he could be, and all thought him the most beautiful prince that had ever been seen.
Who acts: keepers · What happens: wonder, be, think, see · To what, where: prince, beautiful 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 (keepers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 wondered | advmod |
| 3 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 wondered | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 be | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 be | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 who | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 thought | advmod |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wondered | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 prince | det |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 beautiful | advmod |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 prince | amod |
| 16 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 21 seen | advmod |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 prince | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | keepers = keeper | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | keepers = keeper not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | keepers = keeper not said here | prince | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect · passive | the beautiful prince | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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