Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 80
The King and every one else in the court-house were very much astonished, and would not believe the young prince. "
Who acts: King · What happens: be, not believe · To what, where: young 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 (King), 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 | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 one | cc |
| 4 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 one | det |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 King | conj |
| 6 | else | else | ADV | _ | 5 one | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 9 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 court | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 one | nmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | cop |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 astonished | advmod |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 believe | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 believe | cc |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 believe | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 believe | advmod |
| 20 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 astonished | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prince | det |
| 22 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prince | amod |
| 23 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 believe | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 astonished | punct |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King and every one in the court house | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not believe | would | the young prince | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prince=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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