Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 83
The six princes were very much ashamed, but the young prince was very glad.
Who acts: six princes, young prince · What happens: be
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 (six princes, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princes | det |
| 2 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 princes | nummod |
| 3 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ashamed | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ashamed | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 much | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 ashamed | advmod |
| 7 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glad | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 glad | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prince | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prince | amod |
| 12 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glad | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glad | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 glad | advmod |
| 15 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ashamed | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ashamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the six princes | ashamed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the young prince | glad property | tree rules |
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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