Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 72
All the men of the land assembled, and the traveller Prince also came, dressed in the Fakir's clothes, saying to himself, "I must see this ceremony to-day."
Who acts: men, traveller, father · What happens: assemble, come, dress, say, see · To what, where: clothes, Man, ceremony · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men, traveller, father), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 men | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 assembled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 land | det |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 men | nmod |
| 7 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 traveller | det |
| 11 | traveller | traveller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 traveller | appos |
| 13 | also | also | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 assembled | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dressed | punct |
| 16 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 assembled | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 clothes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Fakir | det |
| 19 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 Fakir | case |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 16 dressed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saying | punct |
| 23 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 assembled | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 himself | case |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 saying | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 see | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 see | aux |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 assembled | parataxis |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 ceremony | det |
| 32 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obj |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 day | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 to | punct |
| 35 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 see | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | participle | all men of the land | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | the traveller | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dress | participle | all men of the land not said here | the Fakir's clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | gerund | all men of the land not said here | Man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | see in a quote | must | daughter's father = father | this ceremony | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ceremony=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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