Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 113

The vizier's son frowned slightly in token of disapproval; but the prince was tired, and thinking that it was only a whim of his friend's, he said to the men, "Very well.

Who acts: son, Prince, disapproval · What happens: frown, be, think, say · To what, where: son, whim · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, Prince, disapproval), 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 vizier	det
2	vizier	vizier	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 vizier	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tired	nsubj
5	frowned	frown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 son	acl
6	slightly	slightly	ADV	_	5 frowned	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 token	case
8	token	token	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frowned	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 disapproval	case
10	disapproval	disapproval	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 token	nmod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 tired	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 prince	det
14	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tired	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	cop
16	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
19	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 said	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 whim	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 whim	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 whim	cop
23	only	only	ADV	_	25 whim	advmod
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 whim	det
25	whim	whim	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 thinking	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 friend	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 friend	nmod:poss
28	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 whim	nmod
29	's	's	PART	_	28 friend	case
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 thinking	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	nsubj
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 tired	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 men	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 men	det
35	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 well	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 men	punct
37	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 well	punct
38	Very	very	ADV	_	39 well	advmod
39	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 said	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 tired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frown	participle		the vizier's son not said here	in token of disapproval; slightly property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in token=Theme
2	is	past	the vizier's son		tired property	tree rules
3	think speech: other	gerund	Prince not said here			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	disapproval	a whim	of Prince's friend	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Prince		well property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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