Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 21, sentence 12
Consequently, not knowing what had happened, he and the vizier's son walked away, the vizier's son chaffing him because he had missed the bird.
Who acts: Prince, son · What happens: not know, happen, walk away, chaff, miss · To what, where: Prince, bird · 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 (Prince, son), 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 | Consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 4 knowing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knowing | punct |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 knowing | advmod |
| 4 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 walked | advcl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 happened | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happened | aux |
| 7 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 knowing | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 knowing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 son | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 vizier | det |
| 12 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 vizier | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 he | conj |
| 15 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 walked | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 chaffing | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vizier | det |
| 19 | vizier | vizier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 vizier | case |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chaffing | nsubj |
| 22 | chaffing | chaff | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 walked | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 chaffing | obj |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 27 missed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 missed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 missed | aux |
| 27 | missed | miss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 chaffing | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 missed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | Prince not said here | consequently property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | happen | past · perfect | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | walk away | past | Prince | away property | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | chaff | gerund | the vizier's son | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | miss | past · perfect | Prince | the bird | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=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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