Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 84
He had not forgotten how his brothers-in-law had laughed at him and mocked him when he seemed a poor, common man.
Who acts: prince · What happens: not forget, laugh, mock, seem · To what, where: brothers, prince, poor common man
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 | 4 forgotten | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 laughed | advmod |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laughed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 law | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 in | punct |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 laughed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 laughed | aux |
| 13 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 forgotten | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 laughed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mocked | cc |
| 17 | mocked | mock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 forgotten | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mocked | obj |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 seemed | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seemed | nsubj |
| 21 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mocked | advcl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 23 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 poor | punct |
| 25 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seemed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not forget | past · perfect | prince | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past · perfect · passive | prince's brothers | at prince | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mock | past | prince not said here | prince | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | prince | a poor common man | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Attribute |
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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