Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 10
One day a young prince was out practising archery with the son of his father's chief vizier, when one of the arrows accidentally struck the wife of a merchant, who was walking about in an upper room of a house close by.
Who acts: young prince, one, merchant · What happens: practise, strike, walk · To what, where: archery, wife, upper room
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young prince, one, merchant), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practising | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practising | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 practising | aux |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 was | compound:prt |
| 8 | practising | practise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | archery | archery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practising | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 son | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 son | det |
| 12 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 practising | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 vizier | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 vizier | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 father | case |
| 17 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 vizier | amod |
| 18 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 son | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 struck | punct |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 struck | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 struck | nsubj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 arrows | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 arrows | det |
| 24 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | accidentally | accidentally | ADV | _ | 26 struck | advmod |
| 26 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 practising | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wife | det |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 merchant | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 merchant | det |
| 31 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wife | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 walking | punct |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 walking | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 walking | aux |
| 35 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 merchant | acl |
| 36 | about | about | ADV | _ | 35 walking | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 room | case |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 room | det |
| 39 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 room | amod |
| 40 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 walking | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 house | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 house | det |
| 43 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 room | nmod |
| 44 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 house | amod |
| 45 | by | by | ADP | _ | 44 close | fixed |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 practising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | practise | past · progressive | a young prince | archery | day | with the son of Prince's father's chief vizier | tree rules | ||
| 2 | strike | past | one of the arrows | the wife of a merchant | accidentally property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wife=Instrument | |||
| 3 | walk | past · progressive | a merchant | a upper room of a house | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Trajectory |
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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