Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 19, sentence 82
But the King of that city became very sad in his heart, because when so many chiefs and nobles were sitting there his daughter had chosen none of them, but had chosen that Fakir; but he kept these thoughts concealed in his heart.
Who acts: King, many chiefs, daughter, thoughts · What happens: become, sit, choose, keep, conceal · To what, where: none, Fakir, heart
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 (King, many chiefs, daughter, thoughts), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 became | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 city | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 city | det |
| 6 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 King | nmod |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 sad | advmod |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sad | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sitting | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 sitting | mark |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 sitting | mark |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chiefs | amod |
| 18 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sitting | nsubj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 nobles | cc |
| 20 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chiefs | conj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sitting | aux |
| 22 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 became | xcomp |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 sitting | advmod |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 25 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 chosen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 chosen | aux |
| 27 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 sitting | parataxis |
| 28 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 27 chosen | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 none | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 chosen | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 chosen | cc |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 chosen | aux |
| 34 | chosen | choose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 became | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 Fakir | mark |
| 36 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 chosen | obl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 kept | punct |
| 38 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 kept | cc |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 kept | nsubj |
| 40 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 41 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 thoughts | det |
| 42 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 concealed | nsubj |
| 43 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 kept | ccomp |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 heart | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 heart | nmod:poss |
| 46 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 concealed | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the King of that city | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | many chiefs and nobles | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | choose | past · perfect | King's daughter | none | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | ||||
| 4 | choose | past · perfect | Fakir | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | keep | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | conceal | past | this thoughts | King's heart | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heart=Location |
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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