Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 11

The prince aimed at a bird that was perched on the window-sill of that room, and had not the slightest idea that anybody was at hand, or he would not have shot in that direction.

Who acts: prince, anybody · What happens: aim, perch, have, be, not shoot · To what, where: prince, bird, window sill, slightest idea, hand, direction

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 (prince, anybody), 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 prince	det
2	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
3	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 prince	acl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 aimed	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 perched	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 perched	aux:pass
9	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bird	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	14 sill	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sill	det
12	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sill	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 window	punct
14	sill	sill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 perched	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 room	case
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sill	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 idea	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 idea	det
23	slightest	slight	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 idea	amod
24	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 had	obj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 hand	mark
26	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 hand	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hand	cop
28	at	at	ADP	_	29 hand	case
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 idea	acl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 shot	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 shot	cc
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 shot	nsubj:pass
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 shot	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 shot	advmod
35	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 shot	aux
36	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 direction	case
38	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 direction	det
39	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shot	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	aim	participle		the prince not said here		at a bird	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	perch	past · passive		a bird	the window sill of that room		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on sill=Destination
3	have	past	the prince	the slightest idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
4	is	past	anybody	the slightest idea not said here	hand		tree rules
5	not shoot	would · perfect · passive		Prince	that direction		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in direction=Destination

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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