Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 18, sentence 85
Now, when Katar was still in the jungle, before the prince was married, he had told the boy the whole story of his birth, and all that had happened to him and his mother. "
Who acts: Katar, jungle, that · What happens: be, marry, tell, happen · To what, where: jungle, prince, boy · 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 (Katar, jungle, that), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 told | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 jungle | advmod |
| 4 | Katar | Katar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 jungle | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 jungle | cop |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 9 jungle | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 jungle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 jungle | det |
| 9 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 married | punct |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 married | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prince | det |
| 13 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 married | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 married | aux:pass |
| 15 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 jungle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 jungle | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 boy | det |
| 21 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 story | det |
| 23 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 story | amod |
| 24 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 birth | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 birth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 story | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 happened | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 happened | cc |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 happened | det:predet |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 happened | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 happened | aux |
| 33 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 told | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 happened | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 mother | cc |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 mother | nmod:poss |
| 38 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 him | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Katar | the jungle | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | marry | past · passive | the jungle not said here | the prince | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the jungle | the boy | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | that | prince | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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