Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 118
The wise and learned, and they who were skilled in magic and in all manner of trickery, were consulted.
Who acts: wise · What happens: learn, skill, consult · To what, where: Queens, magic, manner
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise), 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 wise | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 learned | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 learned | cc |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skilled | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 skilled | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skilled | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 skilled | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 skilled | aux:pass |
| 10 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 learned | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 magic | case |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skilled | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 consulted | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 manner | det |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 consulted | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 trickery | case |
| 18 | trickery | trickery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 manner | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 manner | punct |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 consulted | aux:pass |
| 21 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 skilled | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 learned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | past | the wise | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | skill | past · passive | Queens = queen | magic | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consult | past · passive | all manner of trickery | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/25/118/