Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 79
There they are," said the young prince, pointing to his six brothers-in-law.
Who acts: thieves · What happens: be, say, point · To what, where: young prince, six brothers · 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 (thieves), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 are | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 8 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 prince | amod |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pointing | punct |
| 11 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 brothers | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 brothers | nummod |
| 15 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pointing | obl |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 law | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 law | case |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 in | punct |
| 19 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brothers | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | thieves = thief | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the young prince | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | point in a quote | gerund | prince's six brothers and law | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to brother=Recipient |
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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